# 🪄 Introducing the new Admin Design Wizard

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-the-new-admin-design-wizard/411281
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [September 1, 2026, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-the-new-admin-design-wizard/411281 "2026-09-01T06:13:05Z")
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### Author: ![rishabh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rishabh/32/179446_2.png) [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2026, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-the-new-admin-design-wizard/411281/1 "2026-09-01T06:13:05Z")

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Setting up a new Discourse community is now faster and more fun! After completing the Discourse setup wizard, a new design wizard guides admins through personalising their Discourse community.

 ![Screenshot 2026-08-31 at 16.36.35](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/8/6/b86d3e30fa3bd00a383877058f4b43530a19b162.jpeg)

Now, you can pick a theme, choose color palettes for light and dark mode, select your fonts, and set up landing pages, layout and search options, in just a few clicks 🪄

 ![Screenshot 2026-08-31 at 16.19.24](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/e/3/1e3c9596ba5fae1da4ad53c3ba388c104829c12a.jpeg)

 ![Screenshot 2026-08-31 at 16.19.36](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/0/3/e03ca13ae6d55500af99e1b9738e23ab3825313f.png)

 ![Screenshot 2026-08-31 at 16.20.18](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/8/2/8821442b650efc7bfebef141503f70508abe0f8e.png)

## Try the new experience!

### New sites

If you’re just starting a new community, you’ll see the wizard the next time you set up a site.

### Existing sites

 ![wizard-after](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/6/d/66d2d3327af92a46612550fe37ea2a0cb1cd8999.png)

For existing sites, a re-run option exists so admins can relaunch the wizard from the **Themes & components** tab in the admin sidebar, but it will only appear for sites that still meet the following conditions:

1. the site’s default theme is a core theme (Foundation or Horizon)
2. no non-core themes exist on the site at all (including theme-components)

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> **links to PRs**
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> - [FEATURE: Design wizard - Pull Request #42178 - discourse/discourse - GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/42178)
> - [FEATURE: Allow admins to re-run the design wizard after onboarding - Pull Request #42937 - discourse/discourse - GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/42937)

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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-the-new-admin-design-wizard/411281/2 "2026-09-01T07:44:53Z")

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This is a significant step in the right direction! Kudos team