I have a suggestion for the weekly dev meeting on Thu Apr 10, 2025
Over in Zulip we've been discussing entity extensibilityin the context of some difficulties I've run into in the course of porting entity_translation over to Backdrop, namely around the removal of label callback and the Drupal core function entity_language. In Drupal those two things were extensible which the entity_translation module made heavy use of while in Backdrop langcode and label are static properties (even though label() is a method on the node class for instance, just returns $node->title.
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Thank you for your answer. What I want to do is display usernames or user images in a menu, similar to many community websites. The basic menu that Backdrop currently provides is a "...
How can I display the username or user profile picture in the menu?
Just go to the menu where you want to add your link. Add your link and in the path search for "user". It's done. No need to use a token. Or perhaps this ? menu_attributes
How can I display the username or user profile picture in the menu?
Please can you provide more information about the use case for this and also a screenshot or mockup of what you are trying to achieve. There is a request here (https://github.com/backdrop-...
How can I display the username or user profile picture in the menu?
Oh thanx ! I had an "old" text format that I had disabled. I re-enabled this format in the field body with the permissions and the field comes back for editing.
Problem of access to the body field with a simple post
See https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/7148
Problem of access to the body field with a simple post