Sidebar link / top button to PM admin

[rahim123]

Hi there, I need to add a prominent link to the sidebar and/or a button in the top menu to send a private message to the administrator. Or if it’s any easier I could settle for linking to the /g/admins/ page.

In general, it appears that the sidebar is still not customizable beyond setting default categories and tags? Is this topic still current?

Ability to add a custom section of links to the sidebar

We want to allow users to add a custom section of links to their sidebar. In a first pass for this feature, we plan to build upon the existing sidebar preferences page, and allow a user to add a single custom section for these links. We think it can work something like this: checkbox for “Show Custom Section”. If checked Custom Section appears above Categories Section and values must have valid Name and at least one valid Link to “Save Changes” textbox for Name of the custom section (defaul…

So if the sidebar isn’t feasible I might have to settle for a top header bar button, like the button that gets added deep into this tutorial:

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But ideally I"d like to pre-fill the recipient too, not sure how to do that.

[Moin]

If you want to add the link somewhere else, there are also theme-component to do that. For example
Custom Header Links
Custom Top Navigation Links

@rahim123

But ideally I"d like to pre-fill the recipient too

Create a link to start a new personal message with pre-filled information

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[rahim123]

Thank you very much! I swear I searched extensively and I didn’t find that method to pre-fill a PM with a URL, exactly what I was looking for. And those theme components look like they’ll save me a bunch of time too.

So it looks like the sidebar is definitely not an option, at least not yet?