我可以看到 Meta 上丰富的资源，但通常建议是针对具备一些基本编码知识的人。我们的社区（一个致力于在我们城市建立更可持续食品系统的热心人士网络）完全由非编码人员组成。到目前为止，论坛尚未被使用，但成员们提出了一些潜在用途，例如将其作为制定食品战略的场所。我想向他们展示所有功能，但即使更改基本配置，对于像我这样的初学者来说也是一个挑战。我想按照说明让 Wiki 帖子看起来更明显，但当我复制并粘贴该线程中的 CSS 文本并尝试保存时，系统提示错误：我不知道换行符、括号、分号等应该放在哪里，也不明白它们的含义。这里是否有面向完全初学者的地方，可以从基本原理开始学习？也许我需要在 Discourse 之外寻找其他资源？我觉得我们几乎还没有触及论坛的潜力……衷心感谢！Change the style of a wiki post
For the basics of CSS, perhaps start here:
https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
That site is a pretty good reference even after you learn the basics, imo.
Yeah, meta is not a site focussed on teaching web development, so it is right to use other more appropriate resources on the internet.
There are excellent guides on here, though, start with: Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes and Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes
If you don’t understand anything that looks ‘general CSS or HTML’ then stop and search for a guide on that aspect somewhere on the web.
Well, the problem is not learning CSS or learning how to program in ruby, but the structure of discourse itself, how its interface is organize, how the tree of display elements work (in order to find the correct name of elements to change css styles), etc.
For learning css and ruby programming there are plenty of sites, although links to good learning sites are always welcome.
Thanks for the links to the guides, I am interested in making basic css adjustments and some basic components and plugins.
Are there similar guides to theme components and plugins?
Yes and it is of great utility, but does not provide a clear view of how the interface is organized, you need to navigate deep in the html to get it.
I will read the tutorials posted to get a global idea of how discourse works and is designed.
Honestly, Discourse is a pretty complex app – more complex than a few written tutorials can teach. I highly recommend getting a solid base of understanding on Rails and Ember.js, then digging through the codebase, tracing codepaths as best as you can (though I will say this is not easy at first). Also be sure to look at plugins to see how they tie into Discourse (as there are good ways and bad ways to do this).
@angus wrote up a fantastic beginners guide on the basic knowledge you’ll need to get started.
Of course, a lot of this is going to seem like a foreign language until you start to build and experiment further. I’ve been developing on Discourse for 1.5 years now and am only now feeling like I have any sort of understanding how the app works.
This is interesting. Would you tend to suggest that Discourse is best for communities whose members include some coding knowledge, or would you say that at its most basic, it can work well for groups whose members have none (but didn’t want to use Facebook)? The wiki function, for example, is something our members would like to use to shape documents like a charter, but the default settings make it quite hard to tell that it’s a wiki, hence wanting to customise it according to the suggestions in How to change the style of a Wiki post and finding that the instructions for many customisations assume a basic level of coding capacity and knowledge of terms.
Definitely does not require coding knowledge to use! Facebook is not the only UI people can and should get used to. That said, with flexibility comes some increased complexity.
It’s just a question of how much you want to customise things. If you want to go beyond what the rich settings provide you, you need to learn some basics.
I don’t think the OP was asking about writing plugins?
Ah you’re right — I reread and realized I’d skimmed over the detail about @charlie_spring wanting to change some CSS. That’s pretty straightforward to do so sorry if I discouraged them from doing so!
I’ll revisit this to see if there’s a way I can help on Monday 
This is how the subject digressed 
Ah, I knew there was a reason! 
@charlie_spring – have you looked at this theme component?
It’s posted in the topic you linked in your original post, and you can find instructions on how to install it here: Installing a theme or theme component
It doesn’t have friendly settings to change colors and the like, but the theme component gets you part of the way there at least!
Thanks @justin. The trouble with advice like that is that it expects you to know how to ‘change the background colour by editing the CSS in the theme compoment edit panel’. My original post was about being an actual total beginner (the ones who got nothing about coding in school etc) so to ‘edit the CSS’ is not obvious. I don’t know what needs to go on a new line, whether to use spaces etc. When I cut/pasted the ‘theme components’ into my custom panel, it certainly didn’t set the wiki panel green and I don’t have the basics to know where I’ve gone wrong. For now, I’m just avoiding this stuff and using the basic settings, but some in our community (ie no techies) are keen to create collaborative documents on the forum and Wiki function seems perfect- but the basic settings are v subtle. Might just link people to a google doc for now…