I’m a total noob and have just been granted admin rights to a discourse instance. I’d like to run a jQuery snippet on page load sitewide. What is the easiest and fastest way for me to do that? I’m a web developer, so I know my HMLT, CSS, javascript+jQuery, PHP. But other than that I have no clue a…

If I try to edit the theme I get a warning that my changes will be overwritten at the next theme update as this is an external theme. I’m familiar with wordpress and what i’d do there would be to get a hello world plugin and renamed it and hack it so it does what I want then upload it and activate …

As I said, the fastest solution is to create a component. You can create one in few clicks with the UI: Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components You can follow that but instead of importing, you create a “new” one. Then, once component is created, you can edit it to add HTML/CSS/JS. I don’t h…

Hey, I see now. I was looking for a button to create a new component. I didn’t realise I needed to click Install first. Thanks, this should get me up and running. [Update] It worked well and painless. I was able to create a new component, add small script snippets to head and body and activate th…

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