Moving the personal chat section of the sidebar below the channels section

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The personal chat section on a forum’s sidebar had moved above the channels section, contrary to the default setup. To move it back, Lilly suggested using custom CSS or a navigation menu display control theme component (TC). The issue was later discovered to be caused by the TC, which had been added by Firepup650 and had inadvertently switched the order of the sections. Lilly apologized for the mistake and updated the component to match the default order. Updating the component should resolve the issue.

1

The personal chat part of the sidebar somehow ended up above the channels section on a forum that I’m an admin on, how could it be moved back to its original position?

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2

Can set the order of the default navigation menu sections with this in common - css:

.sidebar-section-wrapper.sidebar-section[data-section-name="categories"] {
  order: 1; 
}
.sidebar-section-wrapper.sidebar-section[data-section-name="tags"] {
  order: 2; 
}
.sidebar-section-wrapper.sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-dms"] {
  order: 3; 
}
.sidebar-section-wrapper.sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-channels"] {
  order: 4; 
}
.sidebar-section-wrapper.sidebar-section[data-section-name="messages"] {
  order: 5; 
}

also can do with my navigation menu display control TC.

3

What caused it to change originally?

4

no idea, I didn’t notice that it changed. I tend to switch the order on my forums but the default is personal chat below channels as far as I know. Here on Meta it’s default, same as if you go into safe-mode and un-check Disable all client-side plugin customizations.

5

Disabling themes fixes it on our site, so now we just need to find the culprit.

6

It seems like another admin added that theme component, I’ll ask about it

7

hah! well there you go. :grin:

I guess in the TC settings I had them switched by default, so I changed the component’s default to match now. sorry about that. If you update component, it will fix. Thanks for catching that. :slight_smile:

8

That would be me :sweat_smile:

I replaced two copies of the original menu modifier with that one, and didn’t notice that switch apparently.

9

yea sorry guys that was on me. I didn’t even notice that I had them in the wrong order, although I was moving them around a lot when I was testing that setting.