# Adding text below avatar or next to username

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-text-below-avatar-or-next-to-username/41715
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [March 29, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-text-below-avatar-or-next-to-username/41715 "2016-03-29T15:24:54Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-text-below-avatar-or-next-to-username/41715/2 "2016-03-29T15:33:29Z")

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I think that after the vdom rewrite of topics, templates don’t work anymore on that page.

> [@Using the JS API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-the-pluginapi-in-site-customizations/41281):
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> Discourse’s JavaScript API allows themes and plugins to make extensive customizations to the user experience. The simplest way to use it is to create a new theme from the admin panel, click “Edit Code”, and then head to the JS tab. For file-based themes, the API can be used by creating a file in the api-initializers directory. For theme’s that’s {theme}/javascripts/api-initializers/init-theme.gjs, and for plugins, it’s {plugin}/assets/javascripts/discourse/api-initializers/init-plugin.js. The c…

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