On quite a few sites lately I’ve seen small buttons that let you instantly switch between dark and light themes. Is this possible with Discourse?

Yes, it can be done, see [image] Alien Night Theme - A free Dark Theme for Discourse Theme discourse2 Summary Discourse Alien Night is a dark focused clean theme with the Dark/Light toggle component in mind to enhance your forum! eyeglasses Preview Preview on theme-creator.discourse.org hammer_and_wrench Repository Link GitHub - B-iggy/alien-night-discourse-dark-theme: A night friendly dark Discourse theme - dark/light switcher inclusive · GitHub open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes [dark] Note: with the release 4.0.0 …

[image] Hamburger Theme Selector Theme component warning This theme component is #end-of-life and is no longer supported This theme component no longer works in recent versions of Discourse. Please see Sidebar Theme Toggle as an alternative. discourse2 Summary Hamburger Theme Selector adds a theme selector in the hamburger menu provided there is more than 1 user selectable theme. This selector works with both logged-on users and anonymous users. hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ham…

That’s neat, but not exactly what I’m looking for. What I meant was a separate toggle button with night/day icons, not something under the hamburger.

Button on header to toggle dark theme

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dax (Daniela) September 5, 2018, 12:54pm 4

Yes, it can be done, see

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Button on header to toggle dark theme

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