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 sidebar , category-icons	8	379	September 4, 2023
Category color selection should be allowed even when style is "none" Bug	20	1964	December 22, 2022
Topic List Sidebars Theme component official , topic-list-sidebars	21	13228	June 5, 2024
Add color and subcategory styling to category and chat mentions UX hashtag-autocomplete	24	2168	December 26, 2022
The topic list doesn't need a category column UX	65	8377	February 13, 2019

Ability to display category icons in sidebar

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