# Showing User-Selectable Themes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-user-selectable-themes/186864
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-user-selectable-themes/186864 "2021-04-14T21:36:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Danc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Danc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Danc)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-user-selectable-themes/186864/1 "2021-04-14T21:36:12Z")

</div>

Hi. We are evaluating Discourse to create a new product forum. (Looks very positive.) One thing that is important to us is to allow users to choose a theme that meets their needs.

I’ve looked extensively and have found much information about how Admins can **create or choose** themes. However, I can’t find anything about how to **display** a user-selectable theme like we have here in [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org). Can someone point me to documentation about how to display these themes to forum members so that **they** can choose a theme?

Thanks and regards,

Dan.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-user-selectable-themes/186864/2 "2021-04-14T21:42:51Z")

</div>

Are you simply looking for this?:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/a/1a05e3bc987cee51d0426e1595ea6fd65d79fbe9.png)

> [@Hamburger Theme Selector](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-theme-selector/61210):
>
> warning This theme component is #end-of-life and is no longer supported This theme component no longer works in recent versions of Discourse. Please see [Sidebar Theme Toggle](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-theme-toggle/242802) as an alternative. discourse2Summary Hamburger Theme Selector adds a theme selector in the hamburger menu provided there is more than 1 user selectable theme. This selector works with both logged-on users and anonymous users.hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ham…](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-hamburger-theme-selector)

By default users can select the Theme they would like within their Preferences, but that’s less convenient.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/8/d80552627592de474fba4bfb2329a0cb49f51379.png)

Note the Admins can determine if a Theme is User selectable or not.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/2/b2c565186b9b68aca4edd5ae876e6f4a6a4f58f3.png)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Danc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Danc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Danc)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-user-selectable-themes/186864/3 "2021-04-15T01:20:45Z")

</div>

Robert,

Yep, that’s it!!! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Many thanks and regards,

Dan.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-user-selectable-themes/186864/4 "2021-05-15T01:21:01Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.