Hi,.. thanks for tips..
turns out that nodebb is not loading my theme.. its a lavander fork (copy the whole directory -R ) BUT with a different id on theme.json
i thought it was not loading my changes.. but if i load another theme like.. Cosmo.. and then load my theme... nodebb still show Cosmo template... : /
theme.json
{
"id": "nodebb-theme-fork",
"name": "Lavender Theme fork",
"description": "A simple theme for NodeBB. Check out the theming guide that accompanies this work at http://burnaftercompiling.com",
"url": "https://www.github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-theme-lavender",
"screenshot": null,
"templates": "templates",
"staticDir": "static"
}