# Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966
**Category:** Site Management
**Tags:** reference, customization
**Created:** [July 10, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966 "2018-07-10T12:10:56Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966/34 "2022-06-13T13:32:53Z")

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Is this any help?

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

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