In the past, you could override the .hbs template for and Discourse Route or Component by adding an identically named file in the templates/ directory of your theme and plugin. This was very powerful, but also came with significant maintainability issues. Therefore, we’ve been recommending against …

Is there a way to easily see which theme/plugin is triggering this admin notice? I looked through all of my themes and plugins and don’t see a templates/ directory in the root of their Git repositories for any of them.

[image] Jonah Aragon: don’t see a templates/ directory in the root It’s in /assets/javascripts/discourse or in /javascripts/discourse, not in the root.

The warning banner should show the name of the theme/plugin. It’ll also be printed in the browser developer console. If not, perhaps we have a problem with the deprecation - would you be able to share a link to an affected site?

Thank you. It did not show in the warning banner but it did show in the developer console, although not very clearly. [2025-03-05 at 10.00.40] Turned out to be this component. [image] DuckDuckGo Search Suggestions Theme component https://github.com/notriddle/discourse-…

Thanks @JonahAragon1 . The theme identification should be much clearer than that, so I’ll get that fixed up :eyes:

This change will fix the warning banner so it identifies themes more clearly: [SCR-20250306-otnz]

Have you find a solution to get back DDG as search suggestion? I’ve disabled the component for now.

No, I just decided to disable the form entirely. I don’t think anyone in my community uses it and I don’t really see the usefulness. I saw the component author proposed an update that requires a core change, so it’ll probably be working again soon. common/common.scss 940ae61c4 …

does it mean that the experimental user card will be introduced into core before this fully deprecates? I currently get this warning for this component GitHub - discourse/experimental-usercard

We’ve archived the experimental-usercard repository, and don’t intend to update the theme component any further. So I’m afraid you will need to disable it before template overrides are blocked in June 2025. We do hope to incorporate some of the experiment into core at some point, but don’t have a s…

Removing support for "template overrides" and mobile-specific templates

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david (David Taylor) June 6, 2025, 1:45pm 16

Support for template overrides and mobile-specific templates has now been dropped.

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Removing support for "template overrides" and mobile-specific templates

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