# Uninitialized variable named settings

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/uninitialized-variable-named-settings/309192
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** kanban-board
**Created:** [February 17, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uninitialized-variable-named-settings/309192 "2023-02-17T04:28:27Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uninitialized-variable-named-settings/309192/2 "2023-02-17T11:24:22Z")

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

> [@Add settings to your Discourse theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-settings-to-your-discourse-theme/82557):
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> 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/374376) topic. heavy_plus_sign Adding settings to your theme Adding settings to your theme is a bit different from adding CSS a…

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