Discourse Sidebar Menu Reorder

Overview

This Discourse theme component lets administators reorder their forum's sidebar menu sections, including all the default sections as well as any custom global sections. The component works for both desktop and mobile sidebar views.

Installation & Configuration

• Install this theme component as per the instructions at Installing a theme or theme component.
• The community section refers to the default top section of the sidebar - the menu with the Topics header and includes the More dropdown submenu; it is recommended that more more than one or two sections (default or custom) be moved above the community section.
• Do not delete any of the default sections in the setting or they will be out of order (you can always add them back or reset the setting).
• The best way to set this component up is to have the component admin screen with the reorder list setting in one browser window, and the forum siderbar view as a test user in another one beside it; reload the page after every menu section order change in the list.

Notes

• After adding new global custom sections to the sidebar_menu_order setting, users may need to refresh their page or collapse/expand the sidebar to see the correct ordering.
• User-created custom menu sections will always appear at the bottom part of the sidebar for that user.
• If the Admin -> All_site_settings -> Chat_separate_sidebar_mode setting is set to Always, the chat button will appear as usual at the bottom and the component will ignore the default chat menu sections (chat-dms, chat-channels and chat-search).

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Discourse Meta Topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sidebar-menu-reorder/394049

Support: For issues or feature requests, please post in the Meta topic or start a PR on this repo.

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