Hello, I am following the Beginners Guide to Discourse themes guide (this one: Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components ) but I am getting stuck and have some questions about the Handlebars section. The guide states if you want to override a template you need to add a script tag with location…

It’s detailed in the linked article in the expandable area.

Take note: [image] (not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides Ideally, when customizing Discourse via themes/plugins, you should use CSS, the JavaScript Plugin API , or plugin outlets . If none of these work for your…

Thank you, maybe it is a good idea to remove the Handlebars section from the beginners guide or at least rewrite it to make it very clear this is not the recommended approach to make changes to a custom theme. Still looking for an answer to my question though.

Thanks Robert, didn’t look at the expandable part… :slight_smile:

Handlebars template override all in the same html file?

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merefield (Robert) November 9, 2024, 3:27pm 2

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Handlebars template override all in the same html file?

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