I’m attempting to add a custom link to the navbar (Ideally something where I’d be able to specify a name and a relative URL for that pill to go to). It’s similar functionality to the ‘bugs’ or ‘features’ links on meta, but I want them to go to a plugin-defined route (/lattices/:id), rather than a ca…

I ended up taking another approach here; the linked method wasn’t a fit for me. Fortunately there’s always more than one way! :dagger: :scream_cat:

@gdpelican , would you mind sharing your solution? I was looking at the extra-nav-item plugin outlet but have not had much luck yet (very new to Discourse here). My next step is the JS approach you linked to.

Putting something into the custom-html outlet is easy using a plugin, though crafting the CSS to get it to look nice might not be so easy. eg. register_custom_html extraNavItem: "<div class='some_class'> <a href='/some-link'>Some Link Text</a></div>"

Thanks, the example is helpful (I’m not kidding when I said I was very new!) I see what you are saying about getting this to look nice – the custom_html is defaulting to inserting a <div> when it needs to be a <li> for that particular location (nav items). For example, when I do: register_custom_…

Yes, that tutorial is a bit old. I think for the most part much of it is still applicable, but there have been some recent changes [image] Important changes to Plugin Outlets for Ember 2.10 Development Shortly I will be merging a branch of Discourse into …

Able to use the 'extraNavItem' custom html outlet?

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Mittineague (Mittineague) February 14, 2017, 9:01pm 6

Yes, that tutorial is a bit old. I think for the most part much of it is still applicable, but there have been some recent changes

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