How can I create a Discourse that's just like Stemaway.com?

[Musa_H]

I recently learned about discourse, and I’d like to develop my own discourse for my website, where parents can come and discuss different topics. I really like Stem Away’s website and want to know how it was done so I could base my community on their format. How can I do this?

[Lilly]

Hi there welcome to Meta

That looks like a very customized discourse site. I expect you would have to build it or hire a developer to do it. It isn’t a template theme, or a simple install of components and plugins.

[Musa_H]

Hi and thank you for welcoming me

Gotcha, so how can I learn about discourse to the point that I could develop it myself? What are some awesome resources that I can learn from is a step-by-step way?

[Lilly]

Can start with these. Also search works pretty good here, especially in the Documentation category.

Beginner's guide to developing Discourse Themes

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How can I make my own Discourse plugins?

I’ve only just started but here’s my ‘starter for 10’ to get you going: Read: these this Try and read the code on the simplest, but popular plugins and see if you can understand what they are doing (this is not always easy, especially with the complexity of dealing with multiple files and the sometimes brutal functional brevity of javasctipt, but persevere) You need to learn: Lots of Javascript (look no further than @mpj’s Fun Fun Function excellent & fun (!) videos (thanks man!)) Lots of …

[Musa_H]

Awesome, thank you so much!

[Musa_H]

Where can I find themes that I can use in the mean time while I’m working to develop this?

[Lilly]

Perhaps try the Theme or Theme component categories?

[Musa_H]

Thank you very much!!