Edit or Disable "community" in sidebar menu

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

@MorganCarey

We don’t really want all the things in there and was hoping there is an easy button / UI for editing those things (example links to badges or FAQ’s )

Alas, there isn’t at the moment.

But the @team is working on it:

Custom sidebar sections being tested on meta

Recently, we decided to extended level of customization for sidebar on meta. We have enabled the ability for you to create your own sidebar sections with links. How it works To display the form, you will need to click plus button at the bottom of the sidebar. [Add section button] You will need to provide the title of the section and at least one valid link. A valid link contains an icon, name and correct URL within the Discourse forum (absolute and relative URLs are accepted). For example: …

Until that is more widely available you are left with hiding some or all of the Community section with CSS (is pretty straightforward for admins) or doing some slightly crazier hacky stuff as chronicalled here:

Ability to add a custom section of links to the sidebar

We want to allow users to add a custom section of links to their sidebar. In a first pass for this feature, we plan to build upon the existing sidebar preferences page, and allow a user to add a single custom section for these links. We think it can work something like this: checkbox for “Show Custom Section”. If checked Custom Section appears above Categories Section and values must have valid Name and at least one valid Link to “Save Changes” textbox for Name of the custom section (defaul…