How do I update my custom theme?

Jim Bridger

I have a custom theme uploaded to github, and installed and active on my forum.

On the plugins list it says "Installed 1.0.0 | Latest 1.0.0"

I updated the version number in package.json on github, why does nodebb still say the latest is 1.0.0? Where is it getting the number from? How do I tell nodebb there's been an update (hopefully without just reinstalling it via command line)

PitaJ

NodeBB gets the versions from npm, not from GitHub. You need to publish your new version and then NodeBB should see the latest version within a day or so.

Jim Bridger

Does that mean my theme would be listed in everyone elses plugin list? It's a custom theme for my site, not something I want to publish

Max 0

@jim-bridger
Why don't you simple run 'npm update <package>' in the nodebb root and restart ?

PitaJ

@jim-bridger in that case you'll just need to update it manually with npm when you make changes, because NodeBB doesn't handle updates for modules outside the npm registry.

Jim Bridger

@max-0 It's just far more annoying to log into my server and find the right folder and remember how to run commands in docker. I wish you could just install/update packages from the admin panel.

julian

@jim-bridger said in How do I update my custom theme?:

Does that mean my theme would be listed in everyone elses plugin list? It's a custom theme for my site, not something I want to publish

Yes, that is correct. Because you've published it to npm, our package manager automatically picks it up as an available theme and offers it for download to any other NodeBB.

You can set nbbpm.index to false in your package.json, but this would also remove the theme from your plugins list.

The easiest thing to do would be to publish the theme under your own namespace (agian, with nbbpm.index set to false), and then install it via the command line, as @pitaj suggested.

e.g. npm i @jimbridger/nodebb-theme-mytheme