Extension:CustomMenu

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
CustomMenu; Release status: stable
Description	Provides customizable menus
Author(s)	Hallo Welt! GmbH
Maintainer(s)	Hallo Welt! GmbH
Latest version	-
Compatibility policy	For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.
MediaWiki	1.43 (LTS)
Database changes	Yes
	Parameters $wgCustomMenuHeaderNumberOfMainEntries; $wgCustomMenuHeaderNumberOfLevels; $wgCustomMenuHeaderNumberOfSubEntries; $wgShowCustomMenuHeader;
	Hooks used ArticleDeleteComplete; BSUsageTrackerRegisterCollectors; EditFormPreloadText; LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates; MWStakeCommonUIRegisterSkinSlotComponents; OutputPageBodyAttributes; PageMoveComplete; PageSaveComplete;
	Hooks provided BSCustomMenuDefaultRecords; BSTopMenuBarCustomizerRegisterNavigationSites;
Licence	GNU General Public License 3.0 only
Download	Download extension ; Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub); Gerrit code review; Git commit log; Download source tarball;
	Translate the CustomMenu extension if it is available at translatewiki.net

This extension is mainly supported in an external venue: BlueSpice Community Forum.
If you need help, you should post there, and not on the talk page.

CustomMenu is implemented as header bar with drop-down menu items. It appears as collapsible menu above the top navigation bar. The HTML output is an unordered list.

Usage / features

Menu items can be modified by editing the MediaWiki:CustomMenu/Header.

Example: A Dropdown with link to the Wiki pages 'Intranet' and 'Demo'. The visible label of the menu is 'Hello World'. The dropdown contains 'Our Intranet' and 'Demo':

* BlueSpice |https://bluespice.com
* Wikimedia|
** menuMediaWiki | https://mediawiki.org|  MediaWiki
** menuWikipedia | https://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia
** menuCommons | https://commons.wikimedia.org | Wikimedia Commons
* menuVersion | Special:Version | Version

The html ID can be used to apply CSS rules in MediaWiki:Common.css.

External links

Helpdesk: CustomMenu

Installation

Add the repo url (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-CustomMenu

.git) as a "vcs repository" and the package name (mediawiki/CustomMenu) and version to the require section of your composer.local.json. Example:

{
	"repositories": [
		{
			"type": "vcs",
			"url": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-CustomMenu
.git"
		}
	],
	"require": {
		"mediawiki/CustomMenu": "CustomMenu"
	}
}

Run the following command in your MediaWiki installation path

composer update --no-dev

Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

wfLoadExtension( 'CustomMenu' );

Done Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

External Links

This extension was originally made for BlueSpice . BlueSpice is a MediaWiki distribution for enterprises and organizations. It enhances MediaWiki, in particular in the areas of quality management, process support, administration, editing and security. This extension is bundled with BlueSpice free.

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