Product scope
Brand Navigation is a Discourse theme component that adds your site’s branding, menus and links to the forum.
Included
Section titled “Included”- A navigation bar above or below Discourse’s header, with an optional brand area.
- Your brand name, logo and destination, with a separate logo for dark color schemes. Show the name, logo or both.
- Links to pages on your forum or other websites, arranged in your chosen order.
- One level of dropdown menus. A parent can open a page with a separate arrow for its submenu, or act only as a menu heading.
- Text, icons or both for navigation links, with optional tooltips and submenu descriptions.
- Direct text links, icons or both in Discourse’s own header, placed beside the forum logo or before the header controls.
- Desktop, tablet and mobile layouts, with a compact mobile menu, wrapping navigation bar or an option to hide Brand Navigation on mobile.
- Per-link visibility for desktop/tablet, mobile or both, and for signed-in, signed-out or all visitors.
- Same-tab or new-tab destinations for the brand and individual links.
- Colors inherited from your theme’s light and dark palettes, or custom colors for the bar, dropdowns and header links, including hover and keyboard focus. Enter colors directly or use the Appearance color pickers.
- Separate desktop and mobile sizes for Brand Navigation’s header icons and link text, with the theme’s sizes used by default.
- Keyboard-operated menus and accessible names for links and controls.
- Settings and menu editing in Discourse administration, with sample links, checks for invalid settings and Discourse’s standard component enable control.
- Preparation on a non-default preview theme before making navigation visible to visitors. A shared component still shares code and settings across themes; use a separate component copy or staging site to isolate changes to a live setup.
- Settings backup, restore and transfer between sites using configuration bundles. Uploaded logos and theme attachments are handled separately.
- Customizable visitor and administrator interface wording through Theme translations. Configured link labels are separate from those translations.
- Navigation on forum pages without adding it to supported embedded Discourse discussions or changing their controls.
Excluded
Section titled “Excluded”- Building general website pages or managing website content.
- Menus nested more than one submenu level deep.
- Replacing Discourse’s sign-in system, topic controls or composer. Link visibility is not an access restriction; use Discourse permissions for protected content.
- Changing how Discourse embeds discussions on other websites.
- DiscussionBridge-specific compatibility features.
- Embedding workarounds based on site addresses, CSS hiding or page-element selectors.
- Requiring changes to Discourse core to install or use Brand Navigation.