Dear Discourse community, I’m trying to add a small section in the user dropdown menu, and have been unsuccessful so far. I know that I can add items to the hamburger-menu through the decorateWidget function. However, it doesn’t look like the user-menu has a way to hook into it. Since the items I w…

So I took this as a challenge to test my skills and to try out Theme Creator and here is what I’ve got for you :slightly_smiling_face: [image] Thanks to Theme Creator, you can try out this theme component live here: https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/Osama/extend-user-menu Here is the cod…

You can use something like this in the </head> section under common: <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"> api.addUserMenuGlyph({ label: "c_user_icon", className: "my-class", // change classnames icon: "heart", // change icon href: `/some/path` // change path }); I18n.transla…

Hey @Johani , First of all, thanks for the reply, it’s greatly appreciated. I’ve stumbled upon the possibility to add these glyphs. However, I’m looking for a somewhat different link. What I’m trying to do is as follows: [46] Of course this was now achieved by manipulating the DOM in the dev-too…

A problem with putting your links there is that they might get pushed off the screen when the notification list fills up. That’s why there’s an extensibility point for the hamburger ☰ menu instead :slight_smile:

Dear @riking , Thanks for your reply! I understand that the extensibility exists in the hamburger menu for this purpose and am aware of the risks of putting extra links in the user-menu. I do am still interested in figuring how to do to it like I described earlier. The “Log out” link also is always…

Add link in user menu

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arjen (Arjen) May 3, 2018, 8:06am 7

@Osama, thank you so much for your reply. This is indeed what I was looking for.

Very much appreciated!

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