Recommendation: Please consider adding a Description field to custom-made themes and components.
Reason:
I created some themes a while back and haven’t looked at them for several months. They are no longer fresh in my mind and I realised it would be useful to have a description or notes field, so I can leave comments about the theme’s functionality and/or status (eg: completeness) for myself and/or others admins to reference.
Don’t we have some sort of metadata versioning / comments area in theming @david?
Yes, you can add a localisable description to a theme by adding this under /locales/en.yml
en:
theme_metadata:
description: This is a description for my theme
I need to create a howto for this, thanks for the reminder @Biscuit
Thanks for the replies Jeff / David.
How about for themes that people are creating through the UI, without creating YML files, on hosted instances of Discourse?
For example, when I click on: ADMIN > Customize > Themes, there’s no field to describe the themes I’ve created. I’d like to have the same commenting ability here, that you’ve added for YML files.
You can use the Discourse Theme CLI (console app to help you build themes) to add YML files on hosted instances of Discourse. Adding a description field to the UI isn’t currently possible, but we might be able to explore it in future.
Information about theme metadata is now available in this topic:
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