# Custom Hamburger Menu Links
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** deprecated
**Created:** [May 16, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644 "2018-05-16T14:15:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/1 "2018-05-16T14:15:15Z")
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| :discourse2: | **Summary** | **Custom Hamburger Menu Links** will allow you to easily add links to the hamburger menu. |
| 👓 | **Preview** | [Preview on theme-creator.discourse.org](https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/awesomerobot/hamburger-links) |
| 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-hamburger-links](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-hamburger-links) |
| 📖 | **New to Discourse Themes?** | [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) |
Install this theme component
### Samples
Desktop
Mobile
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### Settings
You add links via comma delimited values in this order:
`Text,URL,Location,Target`
**Text**
is the name of the link that shows on the menu.
**URL**
is the path you want the link to have. You can use relative paths like
`/tags/funny`
or
`/t/231`
if you prefer.
**Location**
can have one of two values. Either the letter `g` or the letter `f`
Use “g” if you want the link to appear in the `generalLinks` section:
or use “f” if you want the link to appear in the `footerLinks` section:
**Target (optional)**
Use “blank” if you need the link to open in a new tab.
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### Author:  [@NemesisRE](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NemesisRE)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/2 "2018-05-16T15:31:16Z")
Thats a nice addition, thanks for that. It’s already installed 😃
Could you add a target option so that it is possible to open the link in a new tab/window (if no target is given just use “`_self`”)
`Text,URL,Location,Target`
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### Author:  [@ngets](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ngets)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/46 "2020-07-08T02:41:19Z")
Please add an option to place the link at the very top of the dropdown panel 🙂
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/47 "2020-08-28T22:13:07Z")
I might have a go at this myself at some stage (have to learn a wee bit first), but I’m putting my thoughts down here for now:
### Feature Requests:
No 1: Allow hover text. This is now used for the core hamburger links, and would be very helpful
No 2: Merge with Rob’s fork, which is clearly a good idea:
> [@merefield](#):
>
> Just add an additional `,N` if you want the link to appear for anon users (aka Not Private), or `,Y` if you don’t (Yes to Private).
No 3: Allow target=“\_blank” as per Richie (also clearly a great idea):
> [@Richie](#):
>
> This is a great component but I’d also love to be able to target links to a new window 😃
No 4: Allow more control of link ordering (likely very tricky!)
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### Author:  [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/48 "2020-10-07T12:30:34Z")
Is there a way that the custom hamburger menu links can be translated depending on the user interface language?
For example, I could wrap yaml translation files into a custom plugin, but I’m not sure which translation keys I could use.
No practical way to do this?
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### Author:  [@rolando](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rolando)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/49 "2020-10-10T12:20:38Z")
is there any way on customizing the links in order to place them on a certain order?
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### Author:  [@savas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/savas)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/50 "2020-11-04T11:45:46Z")
So are we got the possibility to open in new tab?
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/51 "2020-11-05T19:20:13Z")
I don’t think anyone is working on this anymore @savas 😕
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### Author:  [@mognet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mognet)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/52 "2020-11-06T20:16:54Z")
Seems i have trouble adding this to footer links even i add f on Locations. Does anyone have the same trouble?
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/53 "2021-03-06T21:18:45Z")
I got really excited this evening when I saw this!!
I was soooooo much hoping that there was a new feature to open links to a `target="_blank"`😱
Jumped straight on GitHub to see what was new!
Oh @tshenry I was so disappointed 😔
🤣
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### Author:  [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/54 "2021-03-09T01:07:05Z")
> [@Richie](#):
>
> I was so disappointed 😔
Maybe this will help? 😉
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-hamburger-links/commit/d7eacfd7019bd48b939ac4b482986061d4207f1f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-hamburger-links/commit/d7eacfd7019bd48b939ac4b482986061d4207f1f)
That seemed to be the most requested feature and it wasn’t too hard to add support. That’s it for now though 🙂
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/55 "2021-03-09T17:01:19Z")
My life is now complete 😍
Thank you @tshenry this is fantastic news 👏🏻 🙇🏻♂️
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### Author:  [@Krunnie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Krunnie)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/56 "2021-04-20T17:38:04Z")
Hey quick question, how does one localize the custom hamburger menu text? I want to fully localize my forum and I can’t seem to find the text anywhere.
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### Author:  [@thegurjyot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thegurjyot)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/57 "2021-05-24T20:35:49Z")
This is a useful component. But can we add font awesome icons there? It would be great to show social media profile icons there, so that people can follow our social profiles easily.
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### Author:  [@gomezcarsonk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gomezcarsonk)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/58 "2021-05-25T13:35:56Z")
> [@tshenry](#):
>
> Maybe this will help? 😉
>
> [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-hamburger-links/commit/d7eacfd7019bd48b939ac4b482986061d4207f1f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-hamburger-links/commit/d7eacfd7019bd48b939ac4b482986061d4207f1f)[employee time tracking](https://www.worktime.com/employee-time-tracking-software)
>
> That seemed to be the most requested feature and it wasn’t too hard to add support. That’s it for now though 🙂
That is fantastic, thank you! 😉
Maybe you can tell me quickly - how to localize the custom hamburger menu text?
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/59 "2021-07-01T10:11:34Z")
I added support for icons, you could try out this fork of the component: [https://github.com/nolosb/discourse-custom-hamburger-links-with-icons.git](https://github.com/nolosb/discourse-custom-hamburger-links-with-icons.git)
Two notes on usage:
- The icon would be the first item in the list:
If you want a link without icon, just don’t add it, but keep the trailing comma `,`
- If the icon is not included by default, remember to add it to the icon list:
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### Author:  [@thegurjyot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thegurjyot)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/60 "2021-07-03T06:51:48Z")
Can you puch these changes to the official Theme component? It’s always better to have the official Theme component installed as it’s going to be maintained with Discourse future updates.
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### Author:  [@AquaL1te](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AquaL1te)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/62 "2022-07-04T06:53:18Z")
It would be nice to have this merged with the official plugin. I want to add social media buttons in the hamburger menu. But without icons it would not look as nice.
Also, it’s a bit unclear that no space is allowed in the CSV fields.
This works: `Footer Link,https://google.com,f`
But with spaces the item gets inserted in the general field rather than the footer, because of the missing space: `Footer Link, https://google.com, f`
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/63 "2022-10-15T23:16:41Z")
Hi!
With the new sidebar, being able to add custom icons to our links would be a nice addition.
I can try to work on this and do a PR in the following days…
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-hamburger-menu-links/87644/64 "2022-10-17T22:52:59Z")
Quick question…
I’ve installed the theme component on a new Discourse instance, but for some unidentified reason, the default links won’t appear in the **more** section of the sidebar:
I didn’t modify the code, it’s a fresh theme component install.
However, the theme component, installed two years ago, works on my other forum:
No error is displayed. Any idea why the theme component doesn’t work on my new install? 🤔
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