Where to link back to the main site from the forum?

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Continuing the discussion from Should we add a footer?:

We should have is a link back to the main site.

After updating theme components, I found it’s easy to customize Discourse in many ways. We could put that link:

  • in a custom header above the Discourse header (which could have a range of menus and links)
  • in the hamburger menu
  • in a footer
  • probably easy to do many other places

What’s best?

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All of the above? This is probably a design question, but I’d say that a header and/or footer which contains quicklinks (and highlights which is current) the different subdomains that people could visit and exists across all subdomains.

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I would recommend not to add an extra header or footer for that purpose. A prominent link at the very bottom of the hamburger menu sounds fine.

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Thanks, I added that link, called it “back to main site” for now

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I’d prefer a snowdrift.coop logo. Or " Snowdrift.coop " – there should be no room for confusion about what “main site” means. On discourse that could be the discourse homepage, for example.

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Snowdrift.coop main site fits okay, switched it to that.

(side note: the UI here where the confirm button immediately switches to “reset” and one careless extra click forced me to redo all the menu items… arg…)

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Note, you need to refresh the page (not just visit a different page) in order for the link to show up in the menu. I don’t think discourse will allow us to put a logo there.

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I think Discourse is super flexible, capable of a ton of things. It’s just a question of how trivial or costly it is to make certain adaptations. There’s no simple option to put a logo there that I currently know of at least. I bet it’s possible though.

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“main site” is redundant. Snowdrift.coop is exactly what it should say. Centered and bold would be my suggestion, Ideally using the original logo.

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Okay, thanks. I deleted the unnecessary theme-component that provides a UI for adding links. It was too limiting.

We’re back to custom HTML/CSS.

The extra links are added via https://community.snowdrift.coop/admin/customize/themes/1/common/head_tag/edit

Per https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-icons-to-hamburger-menu/69100/4 I think it’s possible to get CSS classes added to the items and then to style them with anything arbitrary. But that only references using classes already built-in. So, added classes to our custom links will take more research or some code knowledge of how to embed the right HTML inside those script blocks.