Jerome reports that categories other than ‘General forum’ do not appear in the sidebar for anonymous users, despite being visible to authenticated users. Lilly suggests checking the default navigation menu categories setting, clarifying a typo in the setting name. JammyDodger confirms the setting works with underscores and suggests trying default sidebar categories if using an older version. Jerome confirms the solution worked, resolving the issue after hours of troubleshooting.
I have tried pretty much every setting, clearing caches, nothing seems to do. The categories “Blog comments”, “General forum” and “feedback” show up for authenticated users, but not for anonymous users. This could have the unfortunate effect of new people not quite finding their way to the essence of where I’m going to hook people into the community: blog comments that I host on Discourse (said blog is not live yet).
have a look at the setting under admin-settings: default_navigation_menu_categories. there is also a corresponding setting for tags: default_navigation_menu_tags
also keep in mind that logged in users can override the navigation sidebar menu categories with their own category favorites by clicking the pencil icon beside the sidebar category header.
However, I think those settings were updated recently to change away from ‘sidebar’. Could you try default sidebar categories in case you’re on an older version @Jerome?
That worked indeed, thank you! I had been looking around for a couple of hours… I guess I’m only beginning to understand the breadth and depth of settings. I’m not able to tag this as solved, but solved it is indeed!
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