# Alternative component (plugin?) to categories navbar

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-component-plugin-to-categories-navbar/396116>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** site-appearance\
**Created:** [February 14, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-component-plugin-to-categories-navbar/396116 "2026-02-14T19:15:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-component-plugin-to-categories-navbar/396116/9 "2026-02-15T01:08:35Z")

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> [@ToddZ](#):
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> Hm… I’d be surprised if there’s something that can mix arbitrary links in with Header Categories Navbar. 🤔

@ToddZ @stephtara I _think_ you can, but you’d need to fork the component.

You might be able to get away with adding more links below the `each` block.

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse-categories-navbar/blob/main/javascripts/discourse/components/custom-categories-navbar.gjs#L55-L66>

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For example, I added a bunch of links before the category list:

> <https://github.com/NateDhaliwal/discourse-categories-navbar/blob/main/javascripts/discourse/components/custom-categories-navbar.gjs#L74-L91>

Settings:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/1/e/a1eba08f84ac0b5080508b641d959bfce97c5c68.png)

This looks like this:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/4X/7/e/c/7ec976213c3cda0058c8f14c6efedd68755bd6ff_2_690x25.png)

Link to repo: [GitHub - NateDhaliwal/discourse-categories-navbar: Shows a horizontally scrolling nav of categories in your Discourse site header · GitHub](https://github.com/NateDhaliwal/discourse-categories-navbar)

Hope this helps!

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