Custom sidebar sections being tested on meta

[rahim123]

@nathankershaw

Only /my links aren’t ok from those three. However, there seems to be a deliberate whitelist

Thanks a lot for confirming that. The /my/* links are a fairly important limitation for what I would need. I’m currently use a variation on this code to add custom links to the sidebar:

Ability to add a custom section of links to the sidebar

Here’s another example that I hope will be helpful to someone, based heavily off the above examples. This code doesn’t add an entirely new section, but instead adds additional links to the bottom of the “More” panel in the Community section (but before the FAQ and About links in the footer). It supports FontAwesome icons (assuming they’re added in the site settings) and external links. It handles edge cases where the sidebar is closed and re-opened, and/or the Community section is collapsed and …

The above custom code is still a bit janky (custom links disappear if the browser is resized from narrow to wide again), so I’d prefer to use the official Discourse solution. But I wonder if maybe I could use that code as a stopgap to add the /my/* links to the official Discourse custom menu?