Global navigation or links

[typeoneerror (Benjamin Borowski)]

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 or another templating system so we can do more with hosted Discourse. Many of our clients we’re building forums for would love this.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

@typeoneerror

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(Superseded) Add new link on header beside search icon

This feature is now available as a dedicated theme component. 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

Add a custom header with a dropdown menu

I recently made a dropdown navigation menu for Envato’s new forums, so I’ll share some code to implement something similar on your own site. We’ll be implementing a black header with one link that reveals a menu of more links, like this: [image] 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…

[typeoneerror (Benjamin Borowski)]

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.