Can someone explain what does this “Convert” button do, please? What is it for?
Convert - Convert this component to theme
The “Convert” button appears on both theme and component pages. It will allow you to convert a theme to a component or vice versa through the admin interface. Most Discourse admins will never need to use it. Themes and components found at #theme already include the correct designation.
This should be covered in our Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes, but the basic idea is:
- Themes are considered to be the baseline of your Discourse site’s styling. Often sites offer multiple, user-selectable themes.
- Components are meant to be added to themes to extend style and/or functionality beyond your basic theme(s).
Great explanation and guide above. I clicked the covert component to theme, unaware of the purpose of the function - is there a way to revert this? Or do you have to delete the component and re-install it?
As explained above, the convert button appears on both themes and components. So you just convert the component back to a theme.