Remove 'Categories' from top and side navigation?

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‘Categories’ currently appears in three places and I’m really trying to simplify the navigation for my audience who generally aren’t that tech-savvy.

I’d like the homepage to be categories boxes containing topics (so that new users immediately see what ‘categories’ and ‘topics’ mean as they’re probably much more familiar with ‘channels’ and ‘threads’) and it looks like the only way to do that is to include ‘Categories’ in the top navigation. But ‘categories >’ is already there and it seems like I can’t remove it; the sidebar also has a ‘Categories’ drop-down and it seems like I can’t remove that either.

Am I missing something?

Cheers!

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I’m afraid the only (or at least most simple) way to go about this, is to simply hide the elements you don’t want with css.

For the sidebar for example, this is the component:
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So you could hide it with:

.sidebar-section[data-section-name="categories"] {
  display: none;
}

Hope that helps!

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Thanks! I’m a complete n00b with css but I think I managed to make it work :slight_smile:

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