# How can I customized my own site
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [7 ביולי, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004 "2020-07-07T08:47:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@gaozp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gaozp)
#### Post date: [7 ביולי, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004/1 "2020-07-07T08:47:58Z")
I use an VPS that build my discourse there , and used docker .
I was wonder : how can I edit the source code in my own computer ,and then push this change to the remote machine .
From my opinion :
1. docker save \*\*\*
2. scp xxx@xxxx // copy docker image to my own machine
3. do some change
4. push image to remote machine
I don’t know if there is an more efficient way to develop discourse?
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### Author:  [@Qursch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Qursch)
#### Post date: [7 ביולי, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004/2 "2020-07-07T10:50:36Z")
When installing Discourse, you can clone your own Git Repository (with edits) instead of the Discourse one.
Just change the link in the middle line here:
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### Author:  [@gaozp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gaozp)
#### Post date: [7 ביולי, 2020, 12:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004/3 "2020-07-07T12:02:12Z")
Yes I know what you mean ,
but there are two respository 1. discourse\_docker.git 2. discourse.git
discourse\_docker doesn’t contain source code , and discourse is the source code .
If I use upper way , I’ll have to rebuild docker images each time when I edit source code .
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [7 ביולי, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004/4 "2020-07-07T12:03:55Z")
Or … you could save yourself tonnes of pain and write a Theme Component or Plugin containing your changes …
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### Author:  [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [8 ביולי, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004/5 "2020-07-08T11:27:08Z")
If you absolutely have to run a fork of the source code (which is definitely not recommended, you can accomplish almost everything with a [plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins-part-1/30515)), then you will need to:
- build a new base image with a [different source repository](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/5f7f09539cac22ee995eb394bccf7369b8646efa/image/base/Dockerfile#L138)
- pass the launcher a [different `--run-image` parameter](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/5f7f09539cac22ee995eb394bccf7369b8646efa/launcher#L91)
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### Author:  [@gaozp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gaozp)
#### Post date: [9 ביולי, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-customized-my-own-site/157004/6 "2020-07-09T10:04:34Z")
Now I know that , maybe I think in the wrong way . I can just write a plugin that contains my change .
Thank you guys!