I’m still new to Discourse, but learning more about how to code on top of it to customize things. I’m trying to learn the best way to insert code in particular spots on a page (more targeted than in a general outlet area). It looks like I’ll have to override the template that controls that spot. I …

That sounds great. Do you mean the Ember Inspector ?

Got it. Using it, there’s one thing I’m not getting (probably has to do with my being new to ember): If you look at the discourse groups page , each group entry has a name and user-count. Using the Ember inspector, I can see the name is from the groups-info template, but where does the group-user-c…

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/groups/index.hbs 7a2e8d3ea {{#d-section pageClass="groups"}} <div class="groups-header"> {{#if currentUser.admin}} {{d-button action=(action "new") class="btn-default groups-header-new pull-right" …

Thanks. I see on group-user-count appears on line 55. Does this mean that if I wanted to, say, add a line right before the group-user-count line, I would have to copy the entire 100 lines of that index.hbs file into my code and insert it like this: <script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-na…

Normally you check if there is a suitable plugin outlet, and use that. you can try and target things with jQuery, but that’s not going to work if you are trying to change an iterative element. If you can’t do either of those things: ask Discourse team to add a plugin outlet providing justificati…

[image] merefield: Normally you check if there is a suitable plugin outlet, and use that. Do you mean changing the code in the outlets around it? (like components/group-info) EDIT: Sorry, I confused templates and plugin outlets. I understand that plugin outlets are lines in the discourse cod…

EDIT: Moved this follow up to here bc its on a slightly different issue.

Best strategy for finding the right template to edit?

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Falco (Falco) June 2, 2020, 6:40pm 2

Did you try the Ember browser extension?

It shows template and components:

Add localizable strings to themes and theme components

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Best strategy for finding the right template to edit?

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