Brand Navigation — branded menus and header links
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Summary | Brand Navigation adds a branded navigation bar with direct links and dropdown menus, and adds optional text and icon links to Discourse’s header. |
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Preview | Screenshots and live examples |
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Repository | CodeWorksLabs/brand-navigation |
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Install Guide | How to install a theme or theme component |
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New to Discourse Themes? | Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes |
Install this theme component
Brand Navigation gives your community a branded navigation bar for links to your website, community resources and related projects. It supports dropdown menus and can also place direct text or icon links in Discourse’s own header.
Examples
The Bridge: a navigation bar above the forum header, with additional links beside Discourse’s header controls.
Repeal OBBBA Forum: a red navigation bar with community menus and social links in the Discourse header.
Features
- Brand identity: show a name, logo, or both, with separate light and dark logos. Place the bar above or below the Discourse header.
- Links and menus: add direct links and one level of submenus. A parent can link to a page with a separate menu arrow, or act only as a submenu button. Items can include icons and optional submenu descriptions.
- Header links: place social links, forum links and external links in Discourse’s core header.
- Audience and device controls: show items to everyone, signed-in visitors, or signed-out visitors, and choose desktop or mobile visibility.
- Mobile layouts: use a compact menu, a full bar, or hide the component on mobile.
- Appearance and configuration: inherit Discourse’s palette or set component colors, adjust header-link text and icon sizes, reorder items in the structured editor, and export or import a JSON configuration.
Getting started
Install Brand Navigation · Add links, menus and colors · Back up or move settings
Status
is available as a prerelease. See known issues and the testing record for details.
Feedback and support
Questions, screenshots and configuration ideas are welcome in this topic. For installation, configuration and troubleshooting help, start a topic in Brand Navigation Support on the CodeWorksLabs Forum.
Bugs, compatibility reports and documentation corrections can also be filed through GitHub Issues.
Roadmap and feature requests
Follow the Brand Navigation roadmap for proposed, planned, in-progress and released work.
Have an idea for improving Brand Navigation? Share it in Feature Requests.
Brand Navigation is independently maintained by CodeWorksLabs and licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later.
Thanks
Thanks to the authors of Discourse Brand Header, Discourse Header Submenus, Custom Header Links (icons), and Pavilion’s Dropdown Header for the ideas and examples that informed Brand Navigation. See attribution and licensing and the authorship and provenance record for the full credits.