Editing Theme design

[sid321 (Sid)]

Whats the actual way to edit the theme is it possible? I’m self hosting the forum and want to make changes to the theme, how to do it? Not through additional css, but is there any other way to make proper changes to it?

PS: I’m using DigitalOcean

[Arkshine]

Hi,

What modifications do you need? Please let us know so we can assist you better!

You can usually change your theme through theme components or plugins.

If you are not familiar with Theme and Theme components, this is a crash course here:

Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes

This is a crash course in Discourse theme basics. The target audience is everyone who is not familiar with Discourse themes. If you’ve already used Discourse theme / theme components, this guide is probably not something you need to read. What are themes and theme components? A theme or theme component is a set of files packaged together designed to either modify Discourse visually or to add new features. Let’s start with themes. Themes In general, themes are not supposed to be compatible …

You can look at a list of the official theme components here:

Customizing your site with existing theme components

This guide introduces Discourse theme components, and how to use ready-made ones to customize your site Required user level: Administrator Theme components are customizations that change surface elements of your forum design or add extra front-end features. Smaller and more targeted than full themes, they can generally (though not always) be combined with other theme components to create a bespoke forum design tailored for your community. While it is more th…

Other topics on this subject can be found here: Topics tagged customization

You can also check out Customization > Theme component or Customization > Plugin sections

[NateDhaliwal]

@sid321

Not through additional css

If you don’t want to write any CSS, you can edit the theme by changing its colour schemes.

[sid321 (Sid)]

From additional CSS I mean I don’t want to make changes in the dialogue box of CSS instead in the main files, so is there some extension like file editor or something as in WP?

[sid321 (Sid)]

Thanks for sharing, also is there something like a File Editor Extension or something available through which I can easily make changes to the code or is there any alternative to the same?

[NateDhaliwal]

I mean, you could make a new repository on Github and connect your IDE to that, and then edit files like common.scss etc.
Or, you can go to Admin > Customize > Themes and make a theme and edit them/edit an existing theme.

[sid321 (Sid)]

Thanks that helped