# Cannot edit theme translations on Theme Creator **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099 **Category:** Bug **Tags:** theme-creator **Created:** [August 24, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099 "2025-08-24T23:38:36Z") **Posts on this page:** 6 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal) #### Post date: [August 24, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099/1 "2025-08-24T23:38:36Z")
In a theme component, I am unable to edit the theme translations from the default to a different value. If I try to edit it an click the green tick, I get the error ‘The requested URL or resource could not be found’. However, I can edit theme settings. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/8/9/d898a0e7ab6c9f5ce74cb07e18be4bea0c931637.png) ---
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [August 24, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099/2 "2025-08-24T23:40:40Z")
Can you look through the network logs ins console? what is going on there? ---
### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal) #### Post date: [August 24, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099/3 "2025-08-24T23:43:41Z")
This is the error I see: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/f/3/df3a894b991ce3cb38b8a2f6d49f2d1156d29564.png) ---
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [August 24, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099/4 "2025-08-24T23:48:45Z")
oh … this is a theme creator bug/feature, it is posting stuff to the admin interface Do you need access to these overrides on theme creator? Feels to me like the simplest thing here is suppressing this UI in theme creator. cc @david ---
### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal) #### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099/5 "2025-08-25T00:31:39Z")
For myself, it would be good for testing, but I don’t use it that much. Can’t speak for others. ---
### 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: [August 26, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-translations-on-theme-creator/380099/6 "2025-08-26T08:54:42Z")
Thanks again @NateDhaliwal. Will see if we can do something here. x-posting this for the record: > [@Cannot edit theme titles on Theme Creator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-edit-theme-titles-on-theme-creator/379393/5): > > Thanks for the heads-up. Unfortunately the implementation of theme-creator has proven extremely hard to maintain, especially with all the changes happening in the core theme / color-palette systems right now. We do have a medium-term plan to overhaul it. The idea is that we could allow regular users to access to the theme section of the admin panel, on the normal admin panel URLs. That should be much easier to maintain than the current strategy of totally re-implementing the theme system under …