I’ve gone through the brilliant plugin and theme component guides, however I’m still a bit stuck on where to quickly find the template/components/widgets/plugin-outlets I need. I thought I’d start with 3 simple edits - if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be a great help :blush: …

[image] (deprecated) Plugin outlet locations theme component Theme component mega the ability to debug plugin outlets is now included in core. Check out this topic for more details play_button Original theme component info

I’ve seen that (sorry should have mentioned it!) and it’s very helpful for visible plugin-outlets, but what about for templates/components/widgets etc? How are you quickly and easily finding them Robert? Any idea where the ones mentioned in the first post are?

My advice is always to start simple. Work on a simple requirement first and work out how to do it. Then move on to the next. As far as Theme-ing goes, I would say that most of that will be modifications to CSS. Use the usual resources . Where it’s not you will need to consider modifying template…

[image] merefield: The source code is always your friend, look through the GitHub directory structure for discourse/discourse and you will find the different bits of the app laid out. Yes, definitely. I’ve been building themes for almost as long as Discourse has existed, and I’m constantly re…

Thanks for the replies both :slight_smile: [image] merefield: My advice is always to start simple. Work on a simple requirement first and work out how to do it. Then move on to the next. That’s what I thought I was doing (I don’t think you can get much simpler than editing the title tags). O…

Ember is really worth learning. It’s very powerful, extensible and fast. Reading this will help make the source code make more sense: [image] Ember.js Guides - Guides and Tutorials - Ember Guides Welcome to the Ember.js Guides! This documentation will take you from total beginner to E…

Thanks Robert! It’s saying that version of the guides is old - is Discourse using that version or should I read the latest, 3.15 guides?

Read 3.10 for now. It’s what Discourse currently uses. If you open the javascript console you will see the version of Ember and jQuery an instance is running. Also be aware there are various ‘styles’ of code decoration. So things in the source code can sometimes vary slightly.

[image] awesomerobot: There are different templates for the different page layouts, but assuming you’re talking about one of the “Boxes with…” layouts discourse/categories-boxes.hbs at master · discourse/discourse · GitHub Unfortunately that’s not it :–( Also tried these: categories-boxe…

So it looks like this is not possible with theme components as there doesn’t seem to be any templates/components for this :sob: Appears this Ruby module is injecting inline styles: discourse/lib/category_badge.rb at 888e68a1637ca784a7bf51a6bbb524dcf7413b13 · discourse/discourse · GitHub Was this m…

Is there a theming 'map'? (An easy way to find plugin-outlets etc)

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Is there a theming 'map'? (An easy way to find plugin-outlets etc)

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