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…

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

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Aurora (Aurora) September 20, 2025, 4:07pm 6

This was apparently also an issue here - but this doesn’t work either

https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-sort-nav-menu-sections/289656/3?u=aurora

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

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