Fabulous! I’ve been wanting this for some time. I’ve built a nice collection of useful custom sidebar menus for myself–links for moderation, for admins tasks & reference, for Discourse documentation, for external content we frequently reference in the forum, etc. One menu has links for the various periodic meetings that simply uses the tag link, e.g. /tag/comm-mgt-monthly that helps me jump to current and previous agendas and minutes quickly.
I’ve many times wished for a way to export my custom sidebar menu configs so others on my team could import–this is a far superior configuration!
And icons! Yay! AFAIK the only way to do this was to add custom CSS. This new solution is elegant.
And sustainable! All admins will be able to edit the configuration files, so not reliant on me only. Thanks @Lilly and @Moin!