Developer Guides

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6130	August 1, 2025
Controlling site settings with themes	0	173	July 16, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	81620	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	16850	July 8, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	14	72474	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	84	194987	June 22, 2025
Discourse Public Data Dump	1	1067	May 13, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	778	April 14, 2025
Guidelines for CSS classes using BEM	0	208	April 15, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 3. CSS in Themes	5	557	March 18, 2025
Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components tutorial , reference , theme-guides	15	106379	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 4. Using Outlets to insert and replace content	0	816	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 2. Creating a remote theme	0	546	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction	0	1054	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up	0	206	March 18, 2025
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	29032	April 12, 2017
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 3 - Add custom site settings plugin-guides , tutorial	39	23534	March 15, 2025
Split up theme SCSS into multiple files how-to	12	4636	January 18, 2024
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions how-to , code	8	1484	March 3, 2025
Split up theme Javascript into multiple files how-to , theme-guides	5	6542	February 16, 2025
Create custom Automations automation , how-to	16	3132	February 7, 2025
Introduction to Discourse Development	1	1890	February 1, 2025
Use the `navigation_menu` query parameter to preview the sidebar or other options how-to	1	895	January 27, 2025
Alternative icons theme-guides , reference	10	2146	January 10, 2025
End-to-end system testing for themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	1	1117	January 2, 2025
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin how-to , code	12	18330	October 14, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface plugin-guides , tutorial	47	26029	September 24, 2024
Include assets (e.g. images, fonts) in themes and components how-to , theme-guides	1	15721	August 23, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	22	5346	August 9, 2024
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	7	1390	July 25, 2024