Is it possible to make a theme available to only specific user groups? Basically I would want to have “premium themes” for paid users. Similarly in a theme like Horizon, it is possible to have color schemes available to only specific user groups. I understand it may not be possible out of the box …

not without plugin development [afbeelding] Restrict themes to certain groups? Support As a starting point, you could have a look at how theme access is overridden for the theme-creator.discourse.org system: The allow_theme? method is used in Discourse…

Linking a topic that helped the asker of a similar query: [afbeelding] Show/hide themes for specific groups? Support I’d like to offer a patreon tier that allows users access to particular themes. Is there any way of showing/hiding themes from particular g…

That was a CSS only solution which will not work when you are restricting access to non paying members. That solution was hiding access to paying members.

Yep I saw that earlier. So the concept and approach remains the same? Asking coz that topic is 7 years old.

well, theme creator still works :slight_smile:

It is just a CSS based solution but will work to restrict users from seeing the premium themes in the selector. Prerequisites is that the user needs to select primary group. Though there is also a TC that will add all user groups as classes. [afbeelding] Show/hide themes for specific groups? S…

[afbeelding] Show/hide themes for specific groups? Someone could figure out a way to dig around in the web inspector and enable these themes, but I imagine most people wouldn’t even look. I run a tech community, everyone would figure out! :sweat_smile: [afbeelding] Show/hide themes for spec…

It is possible. But they might not either. If security is a concern then you will need a custom plugin so the mod is server side vs client side. If your community though is that advanced users could create a tamper monkey script and theme it from their browser.

There isn’t an easy way to keep them from selecting the theme, but you could create a theme that checked the current user’s group and then did something like redirected people to a page that told them to change the theme back or to subscribe.

Kan ik een thema beschikbaar maken voor specifieke gebruikersgroepen?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 20 april 2025 om 02:17 4

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Kan ik een thema beschikbaar maken voor specifieke gebruikersgroepen?

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