# JSON theme settings editor is awesome! (And Events is great too!)

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**Created:** [August 21, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/json-theme-settings-editor-is-awesome-and-events-is-great-too/276074 "2023-08-21T17:46:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/json-theme-settings-editor-is-awesome-and-events-is-great-too/276074/1 "2023-08-21T17:46:25Z")

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Holy smokes! the [New JSON Theme editor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/3-1-0-beta7-new-discourse-lightbox-json-editor-for-theme-settings-public-channels-toggle-and-more/272357#new-json-editor-for-theme-and-component-settings-3) is just fantastic!

### And another thing–Events and sort-by date is also a huge improvement

I’m using Discourse to teach a course this semester (which is how I started using Discourse in the first place), so I’m spending some time setting up a new site from scratch, which I don’t often do. One thing that, though it took me a bit to figure out, is really awesome, and that is being able to make topics Events and then have the category sort things in the event order completely solves the “how do I get the topics to display in the syllabus order” (which I used to solve with a syllabus topic which linked to them all).

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