I’m still learning about theme and plugin development, so there’s a lot I’m ignorant about, but I’m wanting to contribute to this theme component if possible. So I’ve been looking at Fix board button categories by nathan-nz · Pull Request #23 · discourse/discourse-kanban-theme · GitHub as one possible starting point. And I have a basic question: in https://github.com/discourse/discourse-kanban-theme/blob/main/javascripts/discourse-kanban/lib/kanban-utilities.js and a few other places there is an uninitialized variable named settings; it must be setup by the tooling somewhere, and I’m curious to learn more about how that works. Is that an Ember feature, or the Discourse theme driver, or something else? Is there more documentation on variables like that somewhere?

It’s a Discourse theme thing - you can find more info here: [image] Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides Discourse has the ability for themes to have “settings” that can be added by theme developers to allow site owners to customize themes through UI without having to change any line of code and worry about losing their changes with future updates for the theme. Themes can also alter certain themeable site settings, for more information on that, see the Themeable site settings topic. heavy_plus_sign Adding settings to your theme Adding settings to your theme is a bit different from adding CSS a…

Uninitialized variable named settings

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david (David Taylor) February 17, 2023, 11:24am 2

It’s a Discourse theme thing - you can find more info here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Add support for theme settings Feature	18	5592	May 4, 2018
How are theme setting fields created? Product Support	6	2536	May 8, 2018
Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	6	17902	July 8, 2025
Settings not appearing Development	18	652	September 22, 2024
I cant save the settings in all theme components Product Support	1	570	November 4, 2019

Uninitialized variable named settings

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