# Hamburger-categories widget does not mount?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 20, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683 "2023-02-20T13:59:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/1 "2023-02-20T13:59:35Z")
Following the docs here [Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-developing-discourse-themes/93648#mounting-widgets-24)
The example using the log works fine but when I update the widget to
`{{mount-widget widget="hamburger-categories"}}`
Nothing comes out… I’ve run through the list at [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/widgets](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/widgets). and some widgets show some don’t?
Eventually i want to use just the categories list as buttons inside a custom header, like this…
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/2 "2023-02-20T14:13:52Z")
Have you got the new sidebar activated? That will hide the old hamburger menu.
Confirm your site setting is so:
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/3 "2023-02-20T14:23:32Z")
I had it set to “Header Dropdown” I changed it to “Legacy” but same issue
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/4 "2023-02-20T14:27:56Z")
The hamburger menu shows, but I am after just the categories
` {{mount-widget widget="hamburger-menu"}}`
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/5 "2023-02-20T14:27:57Z")
Apologies I was thrown by the widget name. What plugin outlet are you using?
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/6 "2023-02-20T14:28:50Z")
the same as in the docs
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```
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/7 "2023-02-20T14:40:06Z")
theme is here [GitHub - Manifesto-Digital/bcn-discourse-theme · GitHub](https://github.com/tpximpact/bcn-discourse-theme) I tried it on [https://discourse.theme-creator.io/](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/). and problem remains
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/8 "2023-02-20T15:01:38Z")
If you look at the guide you can see the plugin outlet takes an attribute `showFooter`. That’s probably false. Meaning that neither the footer nor the attached widget will show.
In any case why a footer outlet for a header artefact?
Use the plugin outlets theme component to pick a better location imho.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/9 "2023-02-20T15:11:20Z")
It does show… it shows widget=“home-logo”
and it also shows widget=“hamburger-menu”
but it doesn’t show widget=“hamburger-categories”
Just testing it out, doesn’t really matter where it is right now
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/10 "2023-02-20T15:13:48Z")
Any errors in the console?
What shows in the inspector?
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/11 "2023-02-20T15:17:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/12 "2023-02-20T15:18:11Z")
I can see categories here, so they do exist..
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/13 "2023-02-20T15:19:49Z")
My guess is this is the problem:
>
There’s no attribute categories being passed via the footer outlet
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/14 "2023-02-20T15:26:39Z")
but when i use widget=“hamburger-menu” in the footer outlet it shows the categories
I’ve tried other outlets around the page and problem persists
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/15 "2023-02-20T15:30:15Z")
Had you posted that error message initially it would have saved a lot of time.
Always look at the console.
You may need to attach this one with JavaScript once you have retrieved the list of Categories in the same way the Hamburger menu does it.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/16 "2023-02-20T16:07:13Z")
yeah definitely and even more time if the documentation didn’t say “Now, mounting a widget is pretty simple, all you need to know is the widget’s name. That’s it”
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/17 "2023-02-20T16:09:15Z")
Yeah my hunch is that guide is out of date?
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/18 "2023-02-20T16:11:58Z")
Do you know where I can find the most up to date guide, I’m flying around in here trying to find answers but landing on posts that are 4 years old. Is there an actual guide document somewhere?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/19 "2023-02-20T16:21:22Z")
> [@Andrew\_Dickens](#):
>
> “Now, mounting a widget is pretty simple, all you need to know is the widget’s name. That’s it”
Yeah I can see how that would be misleading… technically it does mount the widget, but that doesn’t mean the data required by the widget is automatically available.
You can try passing the categories into the widget this way:
```handlebars
{{mount-widget widget="hamburger-categories" args=(hash categories=this.site.categories)}}
```
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-categories-widget-does-not-mount/255683/20 "2023-02-20T16:53:29Z")
Great thanks.. yes that makes sense and is showing now
As we are here talking about logging in the console
When following the docs [Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-developing-discourse-themes/93648#consolelog-is-your-friend-26)
When i try
```plaintext
```
I’m not sure I get a “global object to the console”, I get a class
And if i try something like
```plaintext
```
I get this error
`THEME 6 'BCN Theme - watched locally'] Deprecation notice: use injected siteSettings instead of Discourse.SiteSettings`
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