Hi, I lost an entire day trying to set up AWS Cognito passwordless login. It simply doesn’t work. After giving up and accepting that I’ll ask users to create logins and passwords using the default Discourse system, I moved on to what should be the most basic task: changing the theme. I’ve instal…

You need to change the default theme and/or go to your settings and choose a different theme.

[image] carlossouza: I’ve installed several themes And to add to @pfaffman ’s note, make sure you understand the distinction between Themes and Theme Components - you have to add the latter to the former and users can only select one of the former at a time.

Thanks for your prompt response, and apologies for the tone of my previous message. I was just frustrated after losing two days trying to set up the Discourse app. I ended up disabling the hosted site and decided to go with the self-hosted version instead. My frustration stemmed from the fact that…

There is also a site setting for the banner: Enable welcome banner. It was added recently. That’s why most themes won’t show it in the screenshots. [image] Bringing popular features to Discourse: Header search, welcome banner, and category icons / emoji megaphoneAnnouncement…

A suggestion: during the first admin access, during the wizard, when the system asks few configuration questions (forum name, description, font, etc.), maybe it should also ask for these basic configuration questions like presence of the sidebar and welcome message. If that’s too hard to implement,…

[image] carlossouza: I couldn’t remove the sidebar You are not alone in not being the sidebar’s default location’s greatest fan. As you have discovered the Dropdown mode of the official Sidebar is recommended (change setting navigation menu to “Dropdown”) This was the “classic” look for Dis…

Cannot Change Theme in Discourse — Nothing Works

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HAWK (Hawk) May 19, 2025, 2:52am 11

Great suggestion – in good news we are currently in the process of refactoring the setup wizard to do just that.

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