Best practices for customizing NodeBB themes
5mon 16d ago by community.nodebb.org/uid/31071 in general-discussion@community.nodebb.org
I’m trying to customize the look of my NodeBB forum and want to make sure I follow best practices. I’d like to adjust colors, fonts, and the header layout without breaking future updates. Do you usually work with child themes, custom CSS, or modify the default theme directly? Any tips on keeping changes maintainable after updates would be really helpful.
It depends on the amount and type of customization you want to make, if it's just simple color changes custom CSS is enough. If you want to change the layout of pages a child theme is preferred. You can modify the default theme directly as well but then when you upgrade your changes will get overwritten, so you would have to reapply them. That's why a child theme is usually preferred for big changes.