# Show categories for everyone
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [April 22, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622 "2023-04-22T23:08:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@BlueSky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BlueSky)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/1 "2023-04-22T23:08:12Z")
Hi there! Im looking for a function where any user sees ALL of our categories in the sidebar by default.
currently they just see the “default” ones
but we want that when they look at the sidebar they see all our categories.
Kinda like this forum here has it.
I have looked around but wasn’t able to find any answers.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/2 "2023-04-22T23:16:25Z")
Does adding all of them as defaults do what you need?
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### Author:  [@BlueSky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BlueSky)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/3 "2023-04-22T23:18:31Z")
that’s exactly what i want to do.
I’ve looked in
`adminpanel > settings`
and then searched for `category` but didn’t find anything useful in that regard.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/4 "2023-04-22T23:31:42Z")
Ah, I see. I think you’re not finding a match because the setting is named [“default navigation menu categories”](https://meta.discourse.org/search?context=topic&context_id=262622&q=%22default%20sidebar%20categories%22&skip_context=true) (and “category” isn’t a match for “categories”).
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### Author:  [@BlueSky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BlueSky)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/5 "2023-04-22T23:33:04Z")
Ohhh! thanks a lot! found the setting with the search for “categories”
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/6 "2023-04-23T07:33:45Z")
Because you got answer, here a extra cherry just to think about
- there is already easy access route to categories
- for mobiles putting all categories to the sidebar makes it really crowded (unless you have type max 5 categories)
- mobile users must open the sidebar to see categories and then it hides other content totally
- categories of the sidebar is something that users can customize. Then hiding all not-so-important ones gives much more pain than letting users decide what categories are important to them
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/7 "2023-04-27T18:09:05Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Alternate category view proposal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternate-category-view-proposal/263105)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-categories-for-everyone/262622/8 "2023-05-27T18:09:41Z")
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