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

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

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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maaatt January 30, 2024, 8:10am 3

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

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