# Restrict themes to certain groups?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [5월 19, 2018, 2:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868 "2018-05-19T02:22:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Flower\_Child](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Flower_Child)
#### Post date: [5월 19, 2018, 2:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/1 "2018-05-19T02:22:11Z")
I’d like a way to restrict themes to particular groups - for example, I’m hoping to give the donators group access to certain exclusive themes and ones that aren’t ready to be released publicly. There any way to do this?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [5월 20, 2018, 9:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/2 "2018-05-20T21:16:17Z")
That isn’t currently possible, no.
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### Author:  [@John123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John123)
#### Post date: [5월 20, 2018, 9:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/3 "2018-05-20T21:36:54Z")
That would be a great feature, I wonder if there is a way to develop such a plug-in independently. Also if there were a way to label tags that come from different types of users (or at least differentiate between admin and members. What do you think about that?:grinning
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 21, 2018, 12:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/4 "2018-05-21T00:37:10Z")
> [@John123](#):
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> I wonder if there is a way to develop such a plug-in independently.
It could be done in a plugin, it is rather tricky, but doable.
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### Author:  [@Flower\_Child](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Flower_Child)
#### Post date: [5월 22, 2018, 12:04오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/5 "2018-05-22T00:04:33Z")
would definitely be useful. got any pointers on how a plugin could work?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [5월 22, 2018, 12:11오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/6 "2018-05-22T00:11:31Z")
As a starting point, you could have a look at how theme access is overridden for the [theme-creator.discourse.org](http://theme-creator.discourse.org) system:
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The `allow_theme?` method is used in Discourse’s application controller here:
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As Sam said, what you want to do is possible, but it will require a fair amount of development work to get it working smoothly
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### Author:  [@WaitroseCarpark](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WaitroseCarpark)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2019, 8:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/7 "2019-05-14T08:56:43Z")
I kind of did this and tied it to Patreon tiers
> [@Show/hide themes for specific groups?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-hide-themes-for-specific-groups/115459):
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> I’d like to offer a patreon tier that allows users access to particular themes. Is there any way of showing/hiding themes from particular groups?
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [9월 19, 2022, 8:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/8 "2022-09-19T20:11:38Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [9월 20, 2022, 9:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-themes-to-certain-groups/87868/9 "2022-09-20T09:22:45Z")