Recommendations on layouts? A way to preview changes?

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

Hey Heather

@Heather_Phillips

Is there a way to “preview” changes that affect layout?

Yup there is! You can use the customize section in your community admin settings to make and preview changes. See this beautiful guide that explains how it all works:

Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes

This is a crash course in Discourse theme basics. The target audience is everyone who is not familiar with Discourse themes. If you’ve already used Discourse theme / theme components, this guide is probably not something you need to read. What are themes and theme components? A theme or theme component is a set of files packaged together designed to either modify Discourse visually or to add new features. Let’s start with themes. Themes In general, themes are not supposed to be compatible …

Seeing as you are interested in Codecademy’s theme, I figured I should also share this:

Do you know what theme this is?

They’re both custom themes built specifically for those sites. Codecademy does appear to use one freely available component in addition to their base theme, Discourse Category Banners. There are some general similarities to Material Design Stock Theme, but their theme is a bit more simplified.

@Heather_Phillips

Thanks for a great product @sam @codinghorror