I just upgraded our Discourse install today and some of our custom menu items were broken. For example, we have a menu item that will take a person to their preferences page (yes, I know you can hit the preference icon under your avatar). From the version we upgraded from to the current version, t…

If all you want to do is link to the current user’s preferences, you could simply use a link like https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences That would avoid JavaScript altogether :slight_smile:

I’m good with that. I’ll give it a try. Thank you! It worked :slight_smile:

Unable to get a Discourse User Name for a dynamic path

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justme May 21, 2017, 1:44pm 3

I’m good with that. I’ll give it a try. Thank you! It worked

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