Developer Guides

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	13180	May 7, 2026
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet plugin-guides , tutorial	38	30665	November 23, 2025
Add custom content that only appears on your homepage how-to	10	8295	February 29, 2024
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	29747	April 12, 2017
Alternative icons reference , theme-guides	28	3039	April 7, 2026
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	19	4992	October 24, 2025
Use Discourse Core Variables in your Theme how-to , theme-guides	0	12245	January 9, 2018
Add a new provider to discourse-chat-integration plugin-guides , how-to	0	4812	August 16, 2017
Add a new locale from plugin plugin-guides , how-to	1	3484	June 11, 2019
Set up a local Discourse Development Environment? dev-install , how-to	0	9048	March 11, 2021
Run Discourse AI evals ai	1	275	December 1, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	10	9268	February 24, 2026
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes	3	500	February 18, 2026
Update themes and plugins to support automatic dark mode how-to , auto-dark , theme-guides	10	4433	November 14, 2025
Controlling site settings with themes	0	328	July 16, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin plugin-guides , explanation	0	2528	April 5, 2018
Discourse Public Data Dump	1	1241	May 13, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 3. CSS in Themes	5	878	March 18, 2025
Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components reference , tutorial , theme-guides	14	108760	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 5. Building and using components	0	831	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 4. Using Outlets to insert and replace content	0	1187	March 18, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 3 - Add custom site settings plugin-guides , tutorial	39	24629	March 15, 2025
Split up theme Javascript into multiple files how-to , theme-guides	5	6936	February 16, 2025
Create custom Automations automation , how-to	16	3831	February 7, 2025
Introduction to Discourse Development	1	2749	February 1, 2025
Use the `navigation_menu` query parameter to preview the sidebar or other options how-to	1	1007	January 27, 2025
End-to-end system testing for themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	1	1300	January 2, 2025
Include assets (e.g. images, fonts) in themes and components how-to , theme-guides	1	16150	August 23, 2024
Designer's Guide to getting started with themes in Discourse tutorial , theme-guides	9	12619	April 8, 2024
Migrate Discourse theme settings theme-guides	0	768	January 30, 2024