# Gallery of discourse customization
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/gallery-of-discourse-customization/121875
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gallery-of-discourse-customization/121875 "2019-07-02T11:30:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@PackElend](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PackElend)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gallery-of-discourse-customization/121875/1 "2019-07-02T11:30:34Z")
Hi there,
it is quite a challenge to keep track of possible customization, same as for finding inspirations.
How about creating a continuously maintained gallery showing a best-of (in the [Theme Creator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-creator-create-and-show-themes-without-installing-discourse/84942))?
So far I have come across [Looking for examples of some nice customizations (I want my community look pretty;))](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-examples-of-some-nice-customizations-i-want-my-community-look-pretty/88118), what led me to nice examples like [New Relic](https://discuss.newrelic.com/), [FeverBee Experts](https://experts.feverbee.com/) and [Revolut](https://community.revolut.com/).
This topic isn’t complete as it misses [Angus’ Sandbox](https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/) what shows nice examples of the [Topic List Previews](https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/c/tlp) and comes with kind of [news blog](https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/news). Another nice example of the Preview plugin can be found in [Any live examples of category-specific CSS styling?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-live-examples-of-category-specific-css-styling/48964).
In addition, a reference to [Material Design Experiments](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-experiments/38398) is also missing.
An absolutely astonishing example is shown in [Sharing our experience changing the Discourse UI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-our-experience-changing-the-discourse-ui/50236) but no details are given ☹.
I made the experience that documentation on #themes isn’t centralized. It is done well for the Material Theme on [Daemonite Material Discourse Theme](https://labs.daemon.com.au/t/daemonite-material-discourse-theme/353). Moreover I found some simple overview on [Introducing Discourse User Themes](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/introducing-discourse-user-themes/31712) and some on [Discourse Interface Tweaking and User Feedback](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/discourse-interface-tweaking-and-user-feedback/49455).
External coding sources are also rare. So far I found only [https://dzone.com/articles/customizing-a-discourse-forum-for-non-coders-and-d](https://dzone.com/articles/customizing-a-discourse-forum-for-non-coders-and-d). but the documentation in [Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developer-s-guide-to-discourse-themes/93648) is extensive.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gallery-of-discourse-customization/121875/2 "2019-07-02T14:23:06Z")
We have a gallery of examples on our website, [Discourse customers | Discourse - Civilized Discussion](https://www.discourse.org/customers)
The #Customization > Theme category has all the themes, full themes are tagged #theme-full and theme components are tagged #Customization > Theme component. There’s also a category for #plugins.
We have theme documentation under #howto:devs with the #themes tag (maybe this tag should be named in a way that makes its use clearer outside of that category).
Are you looking for a gallery where you can see what themes and theme components look like without entering a topic? That’s potentially a customization we can add to our theme category at some point, and maybe an intro banner that explains what I just listed above.
> [@PackElend](#):
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> In addition, a reference to [Material Design Experiments](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-experiments/38398) is also missing.
What needs to be referenced? this is a user that was sharing what they were experimenting with on their own site, you’d need to ask them to share their CSS if that’s what you’re after. Same with [Sharing our experience changing the Discourse UI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-our-experience-changing-the-discourse-ui/50236).
What specifically would help you? Are you looking for more specific documentation on how to theme certain aspects of Discourse? For example, a guide on modifying the layout of the topic list? General component-specific theme guides are something I’ve been wanting to do.
Do you have an example of another site/platform that does what you’re looking for well? Appreciate the feedback, we definitely want to make things easy to find!
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### Author:  [@PackElend](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PackElend)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gallery-of-discourse-customization/121875/3 "2019-07-02T14:49:40Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> What specifically would help you? Are you looking for more specific documentation on how to theme certain aspects of Discourse? For example, a guide on modifying the layout of the topic list? General component-specific theme guides are something I’ve been wanting to do.
Currently, I’m searching for ideas on how to make the default front-end more attractive, showing that it is more than just only a forum. [Sharing our experience changing the Discourse UI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-our-experience-changing-the-discourse-ui/50236) and [https://experts.feverbee.com/](https://experts.feverbee.com/) very decent examples of this _species_.