Discourse deployment using github or bitbucket?

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I think I’ve installed discourse wrongly. I simply do git clone into my server.

If I want to modify the handlebar template like insert an ad, how do I do it now? I go into my server and cd to var/discourse, I can barely find anything, I couldn’t the template files.

What am I suppose to do should be clone a copy of discourse first into my local and git clone a copy of my local copy to my server, correct?

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No. If you would like to run discourse, and get help here, you need to make your modifications by creating plugins.

There are several topics about how to create them.

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so everything is plugin based? What if I want to push 1px up of the logo using css? Even that I have to install plugin?

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Before modifying the code, you might spend a few minutes looking at the admin interface.

See Admin/customize

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Technically speaking, any CSS changes can easily be done in Admin > Customize. You can also modify templates with a bit more work using JavaScript. However, if you want to modify templates to an extreme level, you are better off writing a plugin to do it.

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I already did, I couldn’t find any place to insert custom css, I only see option to change color.

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See https://yoursite.com/admin/customize/themes

Rather than editing the default themes you should create new ones and make them child themes of the main ones.

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I can put custom css when I created a new child theme on my site? or I still have to touch code on server?

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The correct way to build a new theme is this Structure of themes and theme components, but it’s not mandatory. For minor changes to the style you can simply create a New stylesheet and add it to another theme as a component, no need to touch the code on server.

Use the search function here, you’ll find a lot of discussions for themes.

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