I have a small, self-hosted Discourse site created with a standard Docker installation. I’ve installed plenty of plugins into over the years by editing the hooks at the end of containers/app.yml file to git clone a plugin repository. I’ve done a bit of plugin development, as well. A few months ago,…

out of interest - why do you need to fork any of the official plugins? In any case in app.yml you can run a command to delete the specific plugin directory then clone your own if you absolutely need to, e.g.: <in after_code: somewhere > - exec: cd: $home/plugins cmd: …

[image] merefield: why do you need to fork any of the official plugins? Because, I’m hoping to update the outdated version of MathJax that’s used by the discourse-math plugin. OK, it looks to me like this line is what I’m missing: cmd: - rm -r poll To be clear, though, what is poll? I wo…

It doesn’t matter if you make a mistake, just rebuild if you do. My example was with poll plugin. Don’t repeat the plugin directory.

@merefield Incidentally, I think you might like the animation on my front page: https://discourse.marksmath.org/ I used some of your code in the process.

Ha, nice, now add a click to user card! :slight_smile:

This did the trick @merefield - thanks a lot !!!

Procedure to update standard plugins

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) November 23, 2025, 5:18pm 8

That might be a change that is pr-welcome for the official plugin. If you are interested in talking a stab at that for the benefit of everyone relying on the plugin, start a Feature topic to propose it.

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Procedure to update standard plugins

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