# Making customizing categories in the sidebar more discoverable

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-customizing-categories-in-the-sidebar-more-discoverable/297483>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** sidebar\
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-customizing-categories-in-the-sidebar-more-discoverable/297483 "2024-03-01T15:28:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-customizing-categories-in-the-sidebar-more-discoverable/297483/1 "2024-03-01T15:28:11Z")

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I’m finally getting around to figuring out how to customize the navigation on the sidebar. It’s easier and harder than I expected.

Searching settings for “sidebar” doesn’t help.

Under tags on the sidebar, there is a link that says “configure defaults” which searches settings for `default_navigation_menu_tags`, but there is no such link for categories. After a few minutes, it was “obvious” that I could edit that site setting search to `default_navigation_menu` and see that there is also a `default navigation menu categories` setting! From there, it was great!

An easy change would be the have that “configure defaults” link to `default_navigation_menu` so you can see both tag and category defaults. Another would be to add another “configure defaults” link under the category to link to the category defaults, but I think I prefer the first solution.

Another idea would be to have the pop-up modal on the “Customize this section” at the top either include those settings or link to them.

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