How to extend the panel topbar menu with custom entries / links?

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Hi,

I would like to extend the panel topbar menu from within a Kirby Plugin without having to manipulate the original panel files. Is this possible? The goal is to simply append a new item (with an icon) and link it to a special panel subpage for the client. I don’t want to make a whole widget for this just for putting a link inside of it.

After hours of research I couldn’t find anything similar both in the Kirby docs and other sources… :confused: Does somebody had the same problem too and found a solution?

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Thank you in advance!
Foddy

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No, that’s not possible. Those plugins that add a new page to the Panel are all using a widget to access the page.

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Oh yes thanks, that is true.

I am making a plugin which contains the widget and declare it with the registry functions to be loaded up on the panel backend. Just like on kirby-logger. Kirby logger also extended the topbar to create a new panel page with the logs table inside and extended the breadcrumb menu.

I thought if this is possible it must be also a way to solve my “problem” – so this is also not possible from within a widget to append a new menu item?

Best
Foddy

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Yes, the page appears in the breadcrumb but there is no way of adding the page to the menu without messing with the core files.

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hmm too bad… But thanks anyway!
Any plans to officially support this feature on some future Kirby versions?

It would be awesome!

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Well, I am in no position to promise anything, but I guess this will be possible in future versions.

The breadcrumb is added via the topbar function:

  public function topbar($topbar) {
    $topbar->append(purl('logger'), 'Logger');
  }

in logger/mvc/model.php

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Just figured out that you are the developer of the plugin! :smiley:
Awesome! Thanks!

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Related: https://github.com/getkirby/panel/issues/826