I am looking for a way to import my site theme (.dcstyle.json file) via the command line so that the configuration can be applied automatically when we run docker.

The theme is stored in the site backup file, so there is no need to do this unless your intent is to be able to create a brand new Discourse with that theme. And if that’s the case, it’s probably easier to just restore a particular backup on those new sites. You can restore from a backup like this: …

The problem with this approach is that all the posts and users get transferred as well which is what I don’t want The thing is that we made a test production environment to import our 65k users and 80k posts to discourse. We were using a custom forum and so we had to make our own importer. We got f…

Hmm. Surprising that 80k posts would take a week. I’d think much less than a day. Did you base your script on one of the existing ones? What I generally do in situations as I understand yours, is to do those changes before running the importer. It seems like we’ve already spent more time on this th…

I think we’re drifting away a bit from the original question… filename = '/tmp/theme.dcstyle.json' File.open(filename) do |file| json = JSON::parse(file.read) theme = json['theme'] puts theme t = Theme.new(name: theme["name"], user_id: -1) theme["theme_fields"]&.each do |field| t.set…

You might want to have a look at the Discourse Theme CLI :wink: [image] Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes Developer Guides The [discourse] Discourse Theme CLI is a ruby gem that allows you to use your editor of choice when de…

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You might want to have a look at the Discourse Theme CLI

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Import site theme via console

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