I made some changes to the original discourse project and pushed them to my personal repository. Now I would like to use the “discourse_docker” project to deploy to my server. Of course the “discourse_docker” project will deploy the original “discourse” project and not my own. How can I link the “discourse_docker” deploy to my repository? Thanks.

Start here: [image] Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use the appropriate setup guide and come back when you’re done. plugin.rb tada Use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins · GitHub to create a complete di… and look at the code of the 100’s of examples in #plugin

new page for listing all attachments and the source entity add filters to users index page assign posts to a specific user set posts as “closed” etc

@Lilly is completely right. You must not block updates coming from upstream (bug fixes, security patches, even new features) so it’s best to apply customisations with a plugin (if you need to modify the back end) or a theme component (if just the front end) If you start trying to maintain a fork you will soon find it very time consuming.

I need to create new features (backend and frontend at the same time) how do I create a plugin for this? How do I avoid to deploy the latest version? I currently deployed the beta5 but I would like to deploy only stable versions. Thanks

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Lilly (Lillian ) January 30, 2024, 7:40am 2

hmm, why not make a plugin instead? what are the core changes that require you to do it this way?

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