Documentation

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Create and share a font theme component Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	4	6358	August 19, 2025
Insert text or images anywhere on your site using CSS pseudo-elements Developer Guides how-to , customization	0	18323	October 11, 2018
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	10	9540	February 24, 2026
Include assets (e.g. images, fonts) in themes and components Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	1	16327	August 23, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	22	6132	August 9, 2024
Use Discourse Core Variables in your Theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	0	12357	January 9, 2018
Structure of themes and theme components Developer Guides reference , theme-guides	0	29992	April 12, 2017
Private modules and the `-internals` convention Developer Guides	0	62	October 9, 2026
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	16	32973	July 30, 2026
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI Developer Guides how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	13481	May 7, 2026
Designer's Guide to getting started with themes in Discourse Developer Guides tutorial , theme-guides	9	12890	April 8, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests Developer Guides testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	18217	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	46	27680	September 24, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13479	January 30, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	32	85362	July 8, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface Developer Guides	3	805	August 28, 2025
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse Developer Guides code	0	2320	July 3, 2023
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions Developer Guides how-to , code	8	1819	March 3, 2025
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces Developer Guides	14	2152	September 9, 2025
Creating a whisper post Site Management how-to , whispers	4	15215	July 23, 2025
Creating and configuring custom user fields Site Management how-to , user-custom-fields , users	25	19077	April 8, 2026
Adding a new 'managed' authentication method to Discourse Developer Guides explanation	2	3898	November 29, 2023
Creating a banner to display at the top of your site Site Management how-to , customization	11	16737	January 7, 2026
Objects type for theme setting Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	32	2758	April 13, 2026
Discourse AI - Embeddings Site Management ai , ai-search , related-topics	22	7653	September 25, 2026
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	13	5037	June 19, 2026
Creating and managing polls Using Discourse polls , how-to	26	44025	September 22, 2026
Using the AI bot via the Discourse API Developer Guides	0	126	September 19, 2026
Configure your hosted Discourse site to run at the root or apex domain (e.g. example.com) Hosted Customers reference	2	8048	March 18, 2025
Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions Site Management reference , users	0	32807	November 2, 2015