This sort of seems to be mentioned in a few places, but I couldn’t find a clear answer — a way to work around this, or “it’s coming” in the sidebar or the component, or “nope”, etc… I’ve enabled the experimental sidebar on my Discourse-hosted site. I get colored blocks next to my categories. And no…

Just dropping a quick note here, we’re working on making the category icons and tag icons theme components compatible with Sidebar in the short term. This should land by next week. Longer term though, we intend to make customizable icons for category or tags a core feature.

Ability to display category icons in sidebar

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) Split this topic May 19, 2023, 8:10am 8

8 posts were split to a new topic: Alternatives to padlock icons on secured categories

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Add category icons in the sidebar Feature category-icons , sidebar	8	466	September 4, 2023
Can the background color in front of the navs in the sidebar be changed to a small icon? Support	14	266	July 14, 2024
Icons don't show up in the sidebar then the color isn't defined UX category-icons , completed	8	530	July 15, 2024
Category Icons don't show up in post text UX category-icons , completed	6	99	July 18, 2024
The sidebar doesn’t follow category style if none UX sidebar	6	395	April 23, 2023

Ability to display category icons in sidebar

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