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 of the template you want to override to your theme, in my local file I added it to header.html. Is this the only way? It is not possible to add a hbr file to my theme in a templates folder that overrides the theme template file? I doesn’t feel maintainable if I want to make multiple template overrides, it will fill up the header.html really fast and make it unmanageable. I am new to Handlebars so I might be missing something. So my question is, how does one handle mutliple handlebars template overwrites without making it a big mess in 1 of the html files of a custom theme?

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 use-case, feel free to open a PR to Discourse core or start a #dev topic here on Meta. We’re always happy to discuss adding new outlets/APIs to make customization easier. If you’ve exhausted all other options, you may need to resort to template overrides. This technique allows you to override the entire template of any Ember Component or…

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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(not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides how-to	9	3150	March 7, 2024
Customizing handlebars templates Product Support	2	4009	March 29, 2018
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Handlebars template override all in the same html file?

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