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How do I add a custom section?

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua, neovim, vim
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua, the theme file linked in the issue, and inspect the repository's existing manual or configuration guidance. Done means the supported way to add a custom section and modify a theme is clearly documented, including where the configuration belongs.

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Description

Cool plugin, I'm trying to understand how to configure it correctly, apologies if this is in a manual, if so just link it!

I'd like to add a new section, say adding the weather for the next 7 days. I can do something similar adding a footer, but I'd like it to be a section.

Do I add this in the theme?:
* https://github.com/nvimdev/dashboard-nvim/blob/master/lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua?
* Is there some guidance on how to modify the theme?
Do I add it somewhere else?

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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