Hello,
I was wondering, since I have just found out this site recently, and noticed how cool everything has seemed to be customized in a way I also wanted it. So I did a bit of research and found out in sitepoint’s github, there’s the discourse-theme thing. Was wondering if anyone knows how to install the theme that is in github?
While the theme was created and it is handled by the SitePoint HQ Team (we’re only volunteers here at the forum), I know that they have tried to install it and play with it.
Something I should have done too but… time is my worst enemy. Or I have to do too many thngs. Or I want to do too many things.
Anyway, I can’t help you directly but I’m hoping that one of them will be able to.
Of course, I’m assuming that you have your own copy of Discourse installed somewhere
Yes I have already gotten my Discourse installed onto my server, just wanting to try using sitepoint’s theme that looked spectacular. Thanks for your reply though! Hope they will help me with it
* Note, Discourse uses SCSS. so if you are wanting to make your own tweaks you should be somewhat familiar with it though CSS alone will get get you far
Yes, its a fresh install of discourse with just categories added in to it as well.
Those errors still exist and I’m still not able to find places to customize my nav bar
Depending on Setting values and what other plugins are installed, I would expect some kinks. But it seems a fresh install should have less problems to work out not more. (but maybe not).
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How I can change the logo, and those navigation links? I don’t seem to be able to find it in Admin UI.
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Yes, I see it just exactly like the one on this site. Just that my categories won’t have color shown even if I already set a color for it in the setting. And when I click into the categories it gives me an error loading page.
And yes, I saw that customize css/html in the setting but when I modifies the text or anything, it doesn’t seem to affect anything. Also, I don’t see a logo option in that Crawler Links’ customization tab
And that will require me to use SSH to dig into it correct?
The only way I can access into /var/www/discourse is by doing ./launcher enter app
As well as, if thats the correct way to change things, would I need to rebuild app? I’m assuming by rebuilding it, it will overwrite? Not quite sure
EDIT: I’m still having server error when entering the categories. Do you have such problem?
Thanks for your help
BUT - I have a Windows - GitHub- VirtualBox - Vagrant localhost install.
If it were me dealing with a web hosted site I would
fork the plugin to my own GitHub repository.
pull that fork into my computer
use an IDE to edit files / folders
push my changes to my GitHUb repository
install the changed fork into my development Discourse
test (repeating the edit, push, install, test steps until happy)
install the final plugin to my live Discourse
I guess some don’t have much trouble making small edits from a shell CLI, but I have a much easier time searching files and working with them in an IDE or even a simple text editor.
For that I often download the zip file instead of cloning a plugin especially when I’m only interested in analyzing the code.
I’m going to try reinstall my discourse forum now. After removing the plugin, i found out even without that plugin I still get 500 internal server error so. Will give the results after the reinstall.
And was wondering, when you installed it, were you able to get the colors in the categories?
Yes Im certain that I did. I have not yet reinstalled my discourse yet because I have yet to find an uninstall guide that suits centos 7 nor any other OS. Would you by chance know how to completely remove discourse?
Last I knew, that specified that only Docker was supported.
The only officially supported installs of Discourse are the Docker based beginner and advanced installs. We regret that we cannot support any other methods of installation.
So after my reinstallation of the forum. I got the categories working again. But back to my original problem, category tags colors aren’t showing up, its only a blank grey background color