Hey everyone! I’m wanting to know if there’s a way to configure the styling of the sidebar in the admin panel without using CSS? I’m wanting the sidebar on my site (shown below) to match the simple styling that’s used in the Discourse forum. Thanks in advance! [Screenshot 2023-09-14 at 1.01.23 …

Ours is just the Default styling here on Meta. Though it also looks like you may need to update your Discourse to pull in the latest changes. What bits in particular are you trying to replicate?

Gotcha! I’ve customized my Discourse install quite a bit, so I haven’t used the auto update in the admin dashboard to upgrade from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0. I’ll be spending some time shortly to update to 3.2.0 and hopefully that will bring the styling in line with the default styling. Specifically, I was w…

[image] MarximusMG: I’m also curious to know if there’s any way to replace the bullet visual style for the category badges with emojis? Hi! This is possible with this theme component: [image] Twemoji Icons Theme component information_source Summar…

Styling the sidebar without using CSS?

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MarximusMG September 20, 2023, 8:06pm 6

Thank you so much, this is really helpful!

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