# Can't change desktop category page style in settings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 30, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505 "2024-01-30T16:58:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Pletnev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Pletnev)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/1 "2024-01-30T16:58:09Z")
Hi everyone. Just started to setup my blog and already got stuck (( Or maybe i’m not getting something. But googled everything i could so far.
When i’m changingdesktop category page style, i’m expecting that my root blog address -\>home page or click on icon will open my blog in a new style. I’m right?:
Then, it’s not working. Or i missing something some other setting somewhere.
Please, help
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/2 "2024-01-30T17:07:16Z")
The desktop category page style styles the /categories page in desktop view.
If you want /categories to be your homepage, you have to change the order of the top menu. The one at the top is the one the logo will take you to.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Pletnev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Pletnev)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/3 "2024-01-30T17:35:02Z")
Wow! no chance i’d be able to find it myself 😊 Basicly, one setting is overlaping another one.
One more quick one, any idea how to hide left side bar completly? You’d save me an hour or so ))
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/4 "2024-01-30T17:41:34Z")
> [@Alex\_Pletnev](#):
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> One more quick one, any idea how to hide left side bar completly? You’d save me an hour or so ))
You can set the `navigation menu` site setting to `header dropdown` instead of `sidebar`. Is that what you want?
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Pletnev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Pletnev)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/5 "2024-01-30T17:46:27Z")
This is what i want to get: [https://forum.amibroker.com](https://forum.amibroker.com)
No left side bar at all.
Now i have this:
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/6 "2024-01-30T18:00:03Z")
When you change the `navigation menu` site setting to `header dropdown` the sidebar disappears. Instead a menu icon will appear at the top right next to the search icon. So users can still find all the links, which were shown in the sidebar.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Pletnev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Pletnev)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/7 "2024-01-30T18:54:29Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> `navigation menu`
Not sure where to find such thing 🥹:
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Pletnev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Pletnev)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/8 "2024-02-01T13:13:51Z")
Hey Hey! You were so helpful recently. Thanks a lot. If you have a second, could you check my last question in this thread about Navigation menu? All of other things i already set up, only this one left (to hide left sidebar).
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/9 "2024-02-01T13:15:35Z")
I think you may be on an older version of Discourse if `navigation menu` isn’t showing up? Check for `sidebar` instead, and see if the older name is in there.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Pletnev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Pletnev)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/10 "2024-02-12T17:13:40Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> sidebar
Hi, i’m still with this request. I’ll remind in short - “How by default, keep sidebar/navigation menu hidden”
Search for Sidebar or Navigation Menu doesn’t give anything related:
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/11 "2024-02-12T17:24:51Z")
Ah, okay. I thought you were looking for the `navigation menu` setting.
The sidebar can’t be closed by default using a setting, though there is this theme component which should do the job:
> [@Can I default to a hidden sidebar?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-default-to-a-hidden-sidebar/252984/4):
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> Hello Nolo,
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> I’ve made a component to achieve this. I hope it helps 🙂
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> [GitHub - VaperinaDEV/closed-sidebar-by-default · GitHub](https://github.com/VaperinaDEV/closed-sidebar-by-default)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-desktop-category-page-style-in-settings/293505/12 "2024-03-13T17:25:06Z")
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