# Sidebar Categories Organizer

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-organizer/389301
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [November 21, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-organizer/389301 "2025-11-21T00:22:26Z")
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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-categories-organizer/389301/2 "2025-11-21T00:43:37Z")

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Nice work :clap:

### Category settings tip

Instead of making admins enter category slugs, you can use this in your `settings.yml` file, for example:

```yml
categories_to_hide:
  type: list
  list_type: category
  default: ""
  description:
    en: "Categories to hide from sidebar completely."

```

which will give you a setting like this:

 ![Screenshot 2025-11-20 at 4.43.10 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/d/a/adaf23d3b2f35baf12e29c5ae675b11d7336ab9f.png)

You can also do the same thing with groups if you ever want to do a group drop down:

```yml
groups_this_setting_applies_to:
  type: list
  list_type: group
  default: ""
  description:
    en: "Groups this setting will apply to."

```

which will give something like this:

 ![Screenshot 2025-11-20 at 4.48.58 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/4/a/84a72a1f4cc40f491f1040e79a451ff0f2dd60b5.png)

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