Developing with Discourse

[vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan)]

Push to digital ocean from command line and rebuild

Customizing Discourse core is not recommended. And official docker installation does not have easy way deploy it. To do modifications the best ways are Admin side customizations Custom themes Plugins All these ways are easily maintainable and supporting docker.

In your case you must learn about how to develop Discourse plugins.

Edit: Using plugins you can make whatever changes you need in Discourse. Everything is possible with it.