# How to show Full Name in Embeds

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-full-name-in-embeds/255329
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** embedding
**Created:** [February 16, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-full-name-in-embeds/255329 "2023-02-16T07:15:22Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-full-name-in-embeds/255329/2 "2023-02-16T10:59:38Z")

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Welcome, Mark! 👋

Rebuilding the app re-download Discourse, and will overwrite any change you made inside the container.

If you want to bring modifications to Discourse, editing these files this way is not the proper way to do so.

Customize features of Discourse is usually made either with a theme component:

> [@Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-developing-discourse-themes/93648):
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> Discourse Themes and Theme Components can be used to customize the look, feel and functionality of Discourse’s frontend. This section of the developer guides aims to provide all the reference materials you need to develop simple themes for a single site, right up to complex open-source theme components. This introduction aims to provide a map of all the tools and APIs for theme development. If you prefer a step-by-step tutorial for theme development, jump straight to: Themes vs. Theme Compon…

Or a plugin:

> [@Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-plugins-part-1-create-a-basic-plugin/30515):
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> Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use [the appropriate setup guide](https://meta.discourse.org/tag/dev-install) and come back when you’re done. plugin.rbtada Use [GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton) to create a complete di…

If you have some coding knowledge, I suggest you have a look at these links. 🙂

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This link might be particularly interesting:

> [@Example Plugin: Custom Activity Summary Template](https://meta.discourse.org/t/example-plugin-custom-activity-summary-template/69016):
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> Hey everyone, I have created an example plugin to override default Activity Summary (digest) template: [https://github.com/muhlisbc/discourse-custom-activity-summary-template](https://github.com/muhlisbc/discourse-custom-activity-summary-template) Screenshot: [[image] ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muhlisbc/discourse-custom-activity-summary-template/master/custom-digest1.jpg)[[image] ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muhlisbc/discourse-custom-activity-summary-template/master/custom-digest2.jpg) The main purpose of this plugin is to show how to override default .erb templates on Discourse. I hope this helpful for someone.

At first glance, it seems to do exactly what you’re looking for. It just targets another file in the same parent folder.

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