Make logo a link to main website homepage

[Lilly]

here:

Possible to change main logo URL?

I did it like this in my community, added to a theme component: <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"> api.changeWidgetSetting('home-logo', 'href', 'https://mywebsite.com'); </script>

if you want to open it into a new window:

Can I change the URL of the main logo?

This takes a little more customization because it’s prevented in the home-logo widget here: So you’d have to use changeWidgetSetting to set the URL, and then reopenWidget to add _blank and override the default click behavior that prevents it from opening in a new window. <script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"> const { h } = require("virtual-dom"); api.changeWidgetSetting('home-logo', 'href', 'https://discourse.org'); api.reopenWidget("home-logo", { html() { re…

i had this at first, but opted for an header icon instead until the navigation menu global custom links section was added, then i just put it in there. can see it in the screenshot above.

note that widgets will be gradually phased out in the future in favour of ember components, but i don’t know of a way to do it yet using ember js.