Discourse Doc Categories

[stephtara (Stephanie Booth)]

Is it normal that once I use Doc Categories, when I’m viewing a topic in that category my sidebar navigation doesn’t have the link to the admin anymore? I find that quite annoying but I don’t know if it’s a general issue or my setup. Seems to me that access to “admin stuff” should be in a stable place for site admins?

[ToddZ]

Yes, that’s normal. The usual sidebar is replaced by the Doc Categories sidebar. The admin stuff is in a stable place… once you go back:

[stephtara (Stephanie Booth)]

Right – is there a way to customize this Doc Categories sidebar? I do like the doc listing a lot, but the fact that “usual” sidebar stuff like “my posts” etc. suddenly disappears is confusing, particularly as the rest of the design doesn’t really change. I guess if when viewing Doc Categories it looked overall very different, it wouldn’t be so confusing. I know that when I first arrived on Meta the whole Documentation thing confused me and I stayed away from it for a bit because of that (I was like “OMG where am I now?”)

[ToddZ]

@stephtara

I guess if when viewing Doc Categories it looked overall very different, it wouldn’t be so confusing.

A little CSS can give the docs sidebar a distinct background color – maybe that would help?

.discourse-docs-sidebar-panel {
background-color: darkmagenta;
}

[stephtara (Stephanie Booth)]

Thanks a good idea, thanks! I’m going to look more closely into the different selectors for part of the Discourse page layout. I imagine there’s a reference somewhere.
I can’t remember if I asked the question or not before, but is there a way to apply a CSS rule according to group or TL the user belongs to?

[ToddZ]

I’ve spun off a topic with some hints: Finding CSS selectors for page layout, user groups