# Access admin settings, plugins etc via search?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-admin-settings-plugins-etc-via-search/300821
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** search, completed
**Created:** [March 25, 2024, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-admin-settings-plugins-etc-via-search/300821 "2024-03-25T12:06:39Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-admin-settings-plugins-etc-via-search/300821/7 "2024-03-25T12:32:38Z")

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The announcement topic is here, though it’s in active development and things are changing reasonably frequently:

> [@Introducing admin sidebar navigation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-experimental-admin-sidebar-navigation/289281):
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> mega Update: The old admin top navigation has been officially deprecated and removed in the 3.4 release. The sidebar navigation has seen huge improvements lately and, going forward, is the only way to navigate the Discourse admin. We have been working internally on some changes around how the navigation structure will work in the admin areas of Discourse. The first part of this work is introducing an admin sidebar. It looks like this:

The filter is at the top of the sidebar in the `/admin` section (so not the main site sidebar).

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