Thanks for your feedback, Jonathan! And yes, it’s a good idea to not set up this topic as a collection of different solutions, I adjusted the title and text of my op!
on 2) And yes, I didn’t want to suggest using these same terms as such. There is a general suggestion though and it’s not dividing the community into subgroups with 1st level categories. I made a mind-map to visualize this. To me, anything you can put in a similar white bubble would support this layout well:
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I’m using the Custom Layouts plugin and all of it’s current widgets: Category List, Profile, Custom Html and Topics List. So the navigation menu listing the tags (community, design, development, marketing) is a custom html list.
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I’m only using the sidebar on desktop view, not mobile, that’s why I show categories in the top navigation as well. Also, there might be more categories that I wouldn’t want to give a similar spotlight on the sidebar menu.