Hi everyone, I’m running into an issue with the sidebar menu in my Discourse forum. The order of the sections seems fixed — for example, when I create additional custom sections, they always appear above the “Categories” section. For my community, it would be important to have those custom section…

Hi there, you can control the order of sidebar sections with CSS. Just add a new component with something like the following css code. Go to admin -> themes & compontents -> components and create a new local component [Screenshot 2025-09-20 at 7.50.50 AM] and add this code to the css tab, where c…

Danke! Ich hatte gerade das gefunden und umgesetzt - aber mobil funktionierte es nicht [image] Rearrange Sidebar Order? Development since the navigation menu sidebar-sections class is using the display = "flex" property you can do something like this - j…

hier war es wohl auch schon mal ein Thema - aber das funktioniert auch nicht [image] How to sort nav menu sections? Support Hi @Lilly wave I used your CSS code to rearranged the order of the nav sections. It works well when the webpage in the full size. …

The sidebar-wrapper class on mobile is replaced by sidebar-hamburger-dropdown I believe. So adding that should make it work on mobile too: .sidebar-wrapper, .sidebar-hamburger-dropdown { .sidebar-custom-sections { display: contents; } [data-section-name="community"] { order: -4; …

Danke! Habe es gerade ausprobiert - hat aber leider nicht funktioniert. :folded_hands:

Oh right one more detail: the sidebar isn’t using flex on mobile apparently. So you’d need to add that too. .sidebar-sections { display: flex; flex-direction: column; } I’ve only tested this briefly, so not sure what else this would impact. But that’s what is blocking.

Vielen Dank!! Das funktioniert!! Super!

The header name of my custom section contains a space e.g., “Help users.” I tried to use `data-section-name=“help users”`, but that does not work. How can I specify the space? Does any masking need to be done here? Please help EDIT: After inspecting site using dev tools of FF I found the soluti…

How to control the order of menu sections in the sidebar?

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Aurora (Aurora) September 20, 2025, 3:03pm 3

Thanks! I had just found and implemented that - but it didn’t work on mobile

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