# Altering sidebar template from remote theme

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-sidebar-template-from-remote-theme/246490
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [November 23, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-sidebar-template-from-remote-theme/246490 "2022-11-23T01:15:21Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-sidebar-template-from-remote-theme/246490/5 "2022-12-02T15:21:42Z")

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@kaden-stytch it’s now possible to override ‘colocated’ component templates in the latest version of Discourse. I’ve written up some documentation for template overrides here:

> [@(not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overriding-discourse-templates-from-a-theme-or-plugin/247487):
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> Ideally, when customizing Discourse via themes/plugins, you should use CSS, [the JavaScript Plugin API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-versioned-api-for-client-side-plugins/40051), or [plugin outlets](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-your-theme-to-plugin-outlets-to-inject-templates-with-custom-content/32727). If none of these work for your use-case, feel free to open a PR to Discourse core or start a #Development topic here on Meta. We’re always happy to discuss adding new outlets/APIs to make customization easier. If you’ve exhausted all other options, you may need to resort to template overrides. This technique allows you to override the entire template of any Ember Component or…

Please do make sure you read the warnings at the top and understand the risks. IMO overriding sidebar templates is particularly risky right now because it’s an area of Discourse we’re very actively developing / refactoring.

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