# Custom sidebar sections being tested on meta **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** sidebar\ **Created:** [February 15, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-sidebar-sections-being-tested-on-meta/255303 "2023-02-15T22:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![mattdm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mattdm/32/216484_2.png) [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-sidebar-sections-being-tested-on-meta/255303/6 "2023-02-16T00:56:11Z")
Cool — I think this has a lot of potential. Because I jumped right to it rather than reading carefully, I found the “Link” section confusing. It isn’t immediately clear that this needs to be a same-site URL which currently resolves to a valid page of some sort. It might make it more clear if this would _only_ take relative URLs (and if it auto-completed and showed the possibilities in a list? maybe too many to make that reasonable?) Will it be possible to add “active” links like categories or tags which use the correct category color (or icon, with that theme component, I hope?) Will there be a mechanism for adding fancier things? I’d love a custom search which gets an indicator or counter when there are new results. Or a way to have a sections show, say, my most recent 5 bookmarks, or last 5 topics… I’m assuming the global section you mention will replace the current “Community” section? Will this be individually editable as well? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-sidebar-sections-being-tested-on-meta/255303)._