How to customize the composer toolbar?

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@awesomerobot

All that said, the more difficult change is moving something to/from the dropdown menu and into the main toolbar (or vice versa). You’d need to hide the original button with CSS and then add a duplicate button using the API.

Looking at an example theme component, like Discourse Gifs gives a general idea of how that’s done… though this gets tricky if you’re not a developer.

discourse-gifs/javascripts/discourse/initializers/gif-integration.js at b0431b26143809f7a952cd98c2249db9e976bbfc · discourse/discourse-gifs · GitHub

Hi there, I was wondering if this method is still recommended, or is it affected by this?

Modernizing inline script tags for templates & JS API

Using <script type='text/discourse-plugin> or <script type='text/x-handlebars'> in themes is now deprecated. Any use of these tags in themes should be updated according to the instructions below. Regular <script> and <script type='text/javascript'> are unaffected by this change. Timeline These are rough estimates, subject to change May 2025 - console deprecation messages enabled July 2025 - admin warning banners enabled Late September 2025 March 2026 - removal of feature Converting…