# Rebuilding the Meta Branded theme: New icons, a custom homepage, and a first look at the Blocks API

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-meta-branded-theme-new-icons-a-custom-homepage-and-a-first-look-at-the-blocks-api/400013
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** meta-redesign-2026
**Created:** [April 7, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-meta-branded-theme-new-icons-a-custom-homepage-and-a-first-look-at-the-blocks-api/400013 "2026-04-07T09:44:00Z")
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### Author: ![manuel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manuel/32/468169_2.png) [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-the-meta-branded-theme-new-icons-a-custom-homepage-and-a-first-look-at-the-blocks-api/400013/29 "2026-04-27T17:41:30Z")

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> [@nathank](#):
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> I’m really looking forward to being able to utilise some of this tooling. Excited even!

Here you go 🤗

> [@Skills for authoring themes and blocks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/skills-for-discourse-theme-and-block-authoring/401629):
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> A repository of Claude Code skills for building Discourse themes and block components: toolbox What’s included Theme Authoring Skill — covers a comprehensive scope of building a Discourse theme: scaffolding with the discourse\_theme CLI, SCSS architecture, viewport library, localization, settings, modifiers, value transformers, icons, and CSS variables. Detailed reference files for icons, variables, and transformers are included separately and can be loaded on demand. [SKILL.md](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-theme-skills/blob/main/.claude/skills/discourse-theme-authoring/SKILL.md) Block Authori…

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