[Hilary]

Hi Lynne! Thanks for the swift response.

I've just been reading through that thread, and I'm really glad to find you're still posting here.

I found this example code there:

$templater = vB_Template::create('memberbar_member_basic');
$memberbar_member_basic = $templater->render();
vB_Template::preRegister('navbar', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits));
vB_Template::preRegister('navbar', array('memberbar_member_basic' => $memberbar_member_basic));
vB_Template::preRegister('navbar', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits));

...looks like exactly what I want to do, displaying notifications in a custom template, though the op mentions it has a mistake and doesn't say what the mistake is (besides perhaps the duplicated line)...

So I took my existing plugin...

$templater = vB_Template::create('ubermenu');
$ubermenu = $templater->render();
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

and tried adding to it -

$templater = vB_Template::create('ubermenu');
$ubermenu = $templater->render();
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits));
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('notifications_total' => $notifications_total));
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

No luck. Then thought this made no sense, since notifications already work in the header, it's the 'ubermenu' template that needs to know about them, so tried

vB_Template::preRegister('ubermenu', array('notifications_total' => $notifications_total));

etc instead, both in that plugin and in a separate one. Still no luck.

Help?