# Showing simple text with decorateWidget

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-simple-text-with-decoratewidget/62521>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [Mai 11, 2017, 2:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-simple-text-with-decoratewidget/62521 "2017-05-11T14:59:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Radulf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@Radulf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Radulf)\
**Post date:** [Mai 11, 2017, 2:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/showing-simple-text-with-decoratewidget/62521/1 "2017-05-11T14:59:52Z")

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Hi

I started developing plugins for Discourse this week. I already finished my first one, that adds a button below each post that links to a homepage, depending on the post. Now, I’m on to my second project and I merely want to show some text after the name of the poster. It seems like decorateWidget is a nice way to go there, but I don’t know how I get that to work. By basic copy + pasting, I was able to show a small icon, but simply showing text still eludes me. Here’s my current code of the initializer:

```
import { withPluginApi } from 'discourse/lib/plugin-api'

function initializePlugin(api) {
  console.log(api)

  api.decorateWidget('poster-name:after', function(helper) {
    return helper.h('i.fa.fa-arrow-circle-up.home-button-icon');         
  });

}

export default {
  name: 'youtrack-button',
  initialize: function() {
    withPluginApi('0.1', api => initializePlugin(api))
  }
}

```

Especially the decorateWidget part is merely copy + paste that I simplified a bit. Unfortunately I did not find any documentation for decorateWidget or h, which would probably solve these basic questions. So, how would I need to change the code to show the content of some string behind the name?

Thanks for your help!

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