# Add an Admin section to the sidebar
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [September 20, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567 "2022-09-20T15:04:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567/1 "2022-09-20T15:04:38Z")
Sidebar looks great but I’m struggling to get to the admin page now. Sorry if I missed something obvious
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567/2 "2022-09-20T15:05:21Z")
Should be there under “Community” for you if you’re staff:
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567/3 "2022-09-20T15:34:56Z")
> [@Try out the new sidebar and notification menus!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821/31):
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> I also struggled for a minute.
It took me days to find that tiny little “admin” link! I typed it by hand more times that I care to admit, especially as I’m tweaking an interface and cursing the fact that people won’t read my oh-so-helpful instructions.
> [@Try out the new sidebar and notification menus!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821/31):
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> Maybe it would be good to make Admin an entire item on the sidebar? This would give us quicker access to dashboard,settings, users etc.
Sounds good to me.
Also, a plugin outlet or two in the sidebar would be nice. I’d love to stick some stuff from my dashboard over there.
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567/4 "2022-09-20T18:52:42Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Also, a plugin outlet or two in the sidebar would be nice. I’d love to stick some stuff from my dashboard over there.
I agree, also @keegan made a very nice events widget for the pavilion’s layouts plugin, I hope something similar will make its way in the sidebar 🤞
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567/5 "2022-09-20T18:59:43Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I’d love to stick some stuff from my dashboard over there.
Can you say a bit more about the specific things you’d like to have over there? Are the things you have in mind here specifically useful for you as an admin? Or (in this case) were you thinking about things for all users?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567/6 "2022-09-20T19:14:58Z")
As far as the admin stuff is concerned, maybe really just settings, like the current hamburger has.
But by “my dashboard” I mean a wildly custom plugin (that installs and manages Discourse instances), so I want a plugin outlet so that I could have links to servers that the user could manage.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-admin-section-to-the-sidebar/239567/7 "2022-09-20T19:33:25Z")
Just saw this little bit from another topic as well, so pulling it in here:
> [@Add Custom elements to Experimental Sidebar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-custom-elements-to-experimental-sidebar/238750/1):
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> I would love to grab that Admin link and make it a button instead, so I have easy access to admin tools for example.