Okay guys, I have read the entire thread and my apologies for my coding ignorance. What I am trying to do is, use a different navbar template on the forumdisplay pages than on the home page.
So I added a new template, called navbarforumdisplay
Copied the code from the navbar template into navbarforumdisplay and removed the items I added in the forumhome version that I don't want appearing in the forumdisplay (only items I added to begin with, not vB code

).
Then after reading this thread, I created a plugin here
Title: Forumdisplay Navbar
Hook Location: forumdisplay_complete
Exc Order: 5
with the following code
Code:
global $template_hook;
$newTemplate = vB_Template::create('navbarforumdisplay');
$template_hook['fd_navbar'] .= $newTemplate->render()
Then I added the following code to the FORUMDISPLAY template
and removed
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or what is the best way to do this?
Thank you!!!