My broken Discourse install prevents theme import

david · March 4, 2019, 12:01pm

You could do it on the rails console. Take a look at the code for the theme importer to see how:

app/controllers/admin/themes_controller.rb

main


      
                remote_theme = RemoteTheme.new
                remote_theme.private_key = private_key
                remote_theme.branch = params[:branch] ? params[:branch] : nil
                remote_theme.remote_url = params[:remote]
                remote_theme.save!
          
                @theme = Theme.new(user_id: theme_user&.id || -1, name: theme_name)
                @theme.remote_theme = remote_theme
                @theme.save!
          
                render json: serialize_data(@theme, ThemeSerializer), status: :created
              else
                render_json_error e.message
              end
            end
          elsif params[:bundle] ||
                (params[:theme] && THEME_CONTENT_TYPES.include?(params[:theme].content_type))
            ban_in_allowlist_mode!
          
            # params[:bundle] used by theme CLI. params[:theme] used by admin UI
            bundle = params[:bundle] || params[:theme]

To import a new theme, I think it would be as simple as

RemoteTheme.update_tgz_theme("/path/to/theme.tar.gz", user: Discourse.system_user)

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My broken Discourse install prevents theme import

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