# Messages section for sidebar

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/messages-section-for-sidebar/389664
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [November 26, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messages-section-for-sidebar/389664 "2025-11-26T00:04:37Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messages-section-for-sidebar/389664/4 "2025-11-26T15:39:19Z")

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Yes, the API offers almost everything you need to make the section look and work like all the others. The chat uses it too, which probably influenced the development; the features were developed at the same time.

Unfortunately, `get badgeText()`, which displays the number of unread topics in the core sections, is not supported, so I had to get a little creative with the numbers.

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