Hey everyone! As the final step of our effort to move away from the legacy “widget” rendering system, we’re deprecating the use of widgets in Discourse and will soon deactivate it entirely. Timeline These are estimates and subject to change July 2025: :white_check_mark: Add deprecation warnings i…

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35504 When you next update your Discourse installation, the widget rendering system will now be disabled, and any widget-based customization won’t be rendered anymore. For now, on incompatible sites, the admin can re-enable the old behavior by modifying …

Maybe a silly question, but do you think it would be possible for Discourse to offer an .md file with a guide/helpers that one could feed to their CLI code tool of choice to help with the migration of a plugin component? Just a thought :smiley:

We tried to provide migration instructions for the most common customization patterns, like the ones that modified the post-stream . It’s harder to write a more comprehensive guide because pretty much anything could be done using widgets, so the remaining customization needs to be converted to compo…

Upcoming EOL for the widget rendering system

Development

saquetim (Sérgio Saquetim) November 27, 2025, 7:27pm 5

The PR removing the widget system from Discourse was merged yesterday.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36109

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Upcoming EOL for the widget rendering system

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