{"id":108,"date":"2023-04-06T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo.dev\/hc\/creating-a-discussion\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T05:51:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:51:13","password":"","slug":"creating-a-discussion","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/creating-a-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To create a new discussion:<\/span><\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigate to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kialo.com\/my\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">My Kialo page<\/a> and click the &lsquo;Create Discussion&rsquo; button in the top-right-hand corner.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select whether to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/published-vs-private-discussions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"92\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">private or public<\/a> discussion.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select whether to create a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/multi-vs-single-thesis-discussions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">single- or multi-thesis<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discussion.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter a title for your discussion. By default, this will also be your discussion thesis\/question.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optionally, add <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/adding-background-info\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">background info<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/adding-tags-and-images\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">tags<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the discussion. These can be changed later.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select a language for your discussion and click &lsquo;Next&rsquo;.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optionally, upload a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/adding-tags-and-images\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">cover image<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and click &lsquo;Next&rsquo; or &lsquo;Complete&rsquo;. This can be changed later.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are creating a private discussion, select whether to enable any advanced discussion options (read more: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/displaying-claim-authors-in-private-discussions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"95\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Displaying Claim Authors<\/a>; <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/about-voting\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"111\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">About Voting<\/a>). These can be enabled or disabled at any time.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click &lsquo;Complete&rsquo;.<br><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To create a new discussion:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_doc_category":0,"wds_primary_doc_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[28],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-108","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-creating-a-discussion"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"115003883989","zendesk_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003883989-Creating-a-Discussion"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":126,"total_views":"378","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"mk","author_nicename":"mk","author_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/author\/mk\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Creating a Discussion","term_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/sections\/creating-a-discussion\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}