In a Discourse instance I maintain, I have a component (inherited from the previous maintainer of the instance) to display the logos of the sponsors of that instance in the footer. The component used to work fine until recently, but now is rendered wrongly, displaying the template control directives…

With the pointers here, answers to a follow-up question and some help from the ask.discourse.com bot I’ve managed to get it working: Here’s the relevant commit on top of what the discourse_theme CLI generated. Thank you all, especially @chapoi ! (Reviews of GEOWebforum / Discourse theme component…

[image] das-g: How and why did that change and how should I fix it? (By “how and why” I mean: What was the underlying change, and did I miss any notifications about it? I’m sufficiently sure that whatever caused this change in behavior landed in that instance by the activated automatic Discou…

Is there any error or warning in the console to provide further info?

In the browser console? Maybe — I’m not sure what’s “normal” there and what could be hinting at the issue. Can I just paste its contents here or could that leak sensitive information?

Yes, the browser console – it’s fine to paste it :slight_smile: Often, if something is deprecated, the console will throw some useful info out

▶ Full browser console content from loading https://www.geowebforum.ch/c/feedback/2 I guess I have to look at Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin

So, I think registerConnectorClass with setupComponent is deprecated, see your error log: DEPRECATION NOTICE: Defining connector classes via registerConnectorClass is deprecated. See https://meta.discourse.org/t/32727 for more modern patterns. [deprecation id: discourse.register-connector-class-leg…

[image] chapoi: and I’m also not sure we still tolerate the raw html, like in your footer component. If not raw HTML(-template), what is the expected content of https://www.geowebforum.ch/admin/customize/themes/3/common/footer/edit ? Markdown, like in user-provided content? [image] chapoi: …

[image] das-g: If not raw HTML(-template), what is the expected content of I meant: The raw HTML isn’t properly parsed anymore with the latest version, hence you are just seeing the HTML dumped instead of rendered. Yes, .gjs file indeed indicated a glimmer component, but the used method of r…

[image] chapoi: And finally, the Discourse bot might be able to help you a whole end of the way: it knows Discourse patterns well so you can give it your current code, explain the issue, and ask it to help you refactor it. Do you refer to @discobot ?

Templating of my "component" broke. How do I fix it?

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chapoi March 17, 2026, 3:35pm 15

I didn’t think so at all! I know what you mean; I just think in general it’s better form and I try to apply that approach on this forum.

All good

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