Thanks @Lilly. I did look at your plugin but don’t think it fits quite to the use case i’m struggling with.
Lets say a site has around 40 groups and 40 categories/sub-categories. The categories/sub-categories are user specific, for example skills like ‘UX Design, or Public Relations’. These need to be Categories rather than groups as users want to use project management plugins like thread voting, kanban, calendars, etc.
Your plugin is designed with the same issue in mind, but i’d need to create a new section for each group/sub-category pair, it would work but the limit is 8 which is far too low.
Right now i’ve set it so only members who’ve joined groups can see those categories/subs, which makes the navigation menu perfect as its a menu customized for each individual users use of the platform. It breaks the rest of the site though as members sometimes want to interact with, or link to, an area they don’t often visit, and right now those areas are hidden from them.
What i believe is missing is a way for members to visit and interact with a larger number of a sites categories/subs, but hides them from their main navigation based on their group choices.
I suggested a fourth category permission as it would scale better if the proposed expansion of the groups page to allow users to create their own groups, and having groups of groups, goes ahead, but tackling it directly in the sidebar as you’ve done Lilly would be a solution.