# Set Theme Dynamically

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-theme-dynamically/250719
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-theme-dynamically/250719 "2023-01-04T15:51:53Z")
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#### Post date: [January 5, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-theme-dynamically/250719/3 "2023-01-05T21:38:42Z")

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Sorry for the long wait. Busy day 🧑‍💻

So, you can indeed enable or disable a theme or a component with a simple API request.

You’ll have to create an API key with the right credentials and assign an admin user to it.

- in your Discourse: admin panel → API → + New API Key

- in the script you’ll use, as mentioned, do a PUT request on `https://yourdiscourse.com/admin/themes/[id_theme]` with the proper headers (see the authentication part on [https://docs.discourse.org/](https://docs.discourse.org/)) and a JSON body such as:

This will disable the chosen theme/component. Video example with Insomnia:

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