Continuing the discussion from Thumbs up, twice : Sorry, I didn’t try search — I’m a horrible person. But if out there is a plugin and a theme component and those do (almost) same thing what is the most important difference between those two? A plugin needs rebuilding, of course, but is there some…

First, the Reactions plugin and the change-like-icon theme component do not (almost) do the same thing. Yes, you can use the Reactions plugin to change the like icon but its main purpose is to offer multiple possible reactions, so its functionality is much broader than only a cosmetic change. A pl…

That’s true between those. I didn’t think that much, being reactive was my middle name today :joy: So — in real world plugins and components do never same things and then the only reason to use this or that is what it serves?

That is so abstractly worded that the answer is probably ‘yeah’.

[image] Richard - Communiteq: First, the Reactions plugin and the change-like-icon theme component do not (almost) do the same thing. That’s true, but it seemed from another topic that all he wanted to do was to do what the theme component does and just have a single :+1: rather than a …

I took this to its logical conclusion with Topic List Previews Theme Component . This used to be a plugin, until some of its functionality was adopted by Core (thumbnails) at which point I was able to put most of its functionality into a Theme Component to give it a bigger audience and an easier ins…

This plugin: [image] Discourse Video Upload Plugin with YouTube and Vimeo Plugin Note: This plugin is available as a theme component which enables a much easier installation. The plugin in this post is not actively supported, it is recommended to use the theme …

Plugin vs. theme component

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) October 5, 2022, 2:35pm 7

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Was made as a theme component later as well:

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Plugin vs. theme component

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