How to install plugins without using a third-party host?

[NateDhaliwal]

(Btw @Heliosurge I think this was brought up earlier):

@merefield

@Willy

. I’m not kidding when I say they’re very small. For example, one of them just adds a button to an external page on the home page, and that’s it.

If you can boil that down to a Theme Component you could go Heath Robinson and use discourse_theme to push from your local machine to your server, but don’t cry if your local machine dies, is lost or stolen and you can’t get your code back (without then working out how to get a live copy from your server)

@awesomerobot

Even simpler if you don’t want to install the discourse_theme gem, themes can be uploaded as a zip file and you could build quite a lot in the admin UI directly.