Theme-Component v Plugin: What's the difference

[tshenry (Taylor)]

@JQ331

Not sure why the group owner code didn’t work for me–probably something to do with how I set up the plugin.

I can put it in a little GitHub repo when I get a chance.

@JQ331

I believe you can make an API call to [forum-url]/groups.json to get back all site groups, and then you can loop through from there, so no need to make multiple calls.

I don’t think that gives you access to the owner data, but maybe I am missing something.

Regarding your questions:

1. The theme component I linked to does something similar to make sure the ajax call only happens on /latest or the homepage. I would try to build off of that idea: https://github.com/awesomerobot/discourse-featured-topics/blob/ddf3d7e003423e2e5f83446a80cab78d51f09e2d/common/head_tag.html#L12

   Also if you haven’t already, definitely take a look at Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes

2. There is no built-in concept of custom group field like there is with custom user fields. I believe you would need to build a plugin that adds all the necessary bits and pieces for that to work.