# Global navigation or links

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-navigation-or-links/75980
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-navigation-or-links/75980 "2017-12-13T18:18:36Z")
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### Author: ![typeoneerror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/typeoneerror/32/80817_2.png) [@typeoneerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/typeoneerror)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-navigation-or-links/75980/1 "2017-12-13T18:18:36Z")

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Is there no way to add custom links to the navigation or next to the logo without self-hosted Discourse? If not, where would you recommend we put external links that need to be _super_ obvious for new users?

- A pinned post such as `https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-to-meta-discourse-org/1`?
- Use _Customize \> Themes_ to inject some JavaScript in `</head>` to add a link?

I’d love to see the Theme editor use [Liquid](https://github.com/Shopify/liquid) or another templating system so we can do more with hosted Discourse. Many of our clients we’re building forums for would love this.

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-navigation-or-links/75980/2 "2017-12-13T18:36:49Z")

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> [@typeoneerror](#):
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> Is there no way to add custom links to the navigation or next to the logo without self-hosted Discourse?

You can add custom links to the navigation/next to the logo on hosted Discourse.

A quick search led me to the following (there are likely more):

> [@(Superseded) Add new link on header beside search icon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-new-link-on-header-beside-search-icon/48621):
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> mega This feature is now available as a [dedicated theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/iconified-header-links/86307). Want to add a new link right next to search icon on header? Follow below steps: Add this JavaScript code to your site theme Go to Admin Customize Themes Select the theme you wish to customize Edit CSS/HTML \</head\> \<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.4"\> const { iconNode } = require("discourse-common/lib/icon-library"); api.decorateWidget('header-icons:before', helper =\> { return helper.h('li', [ he…

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-nav-header-like-discourse-org/21053](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-nav-header-like-discourse-org/21053)

> [@Add a custom header with a dropdown menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-header-with-dropdown-navigation/33451):
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> We’ll be implementing a black header with one link that reveals a menu of more links, like this: In Admin \> Customize \> CSS/HTML, create a new customization. Remember that you can have multiple customizations active at the same time, so it’s a good idea to use many of them instead of one giant one for everything. For this custom header, create a new customization called “Header Nav”. To implement this sample nav, we need some CSS, HTML, and javascript to show and hide the d…

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### Author: ![typeoneerror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/typeoneerror/32/80817_2.png) [@typeoneerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/typeoneerror)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-navigation-or-links/75980/3 "2017-12-13T19:19:59Z")

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Fantastic, thanks @jomaxro! I don’t think I realized what the “Header” section of the template was for. This is exactly what I was looking for.

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-navigation-or-links/75980/4 "2017-12-15T05:01:01Z")

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