# Sidebar Theme Toggle

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-theme-toggle/242802
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** official, sidebar, sidebar-theme-toggle
**Created:** [October 24, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-theme-toggle/242802 "2022-10-24T19:49:13Z")
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### Author: ![Discourse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/discourse/32/148734_2.png) [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-theme-toggle/242802/1 "2022-10-24T19:49:14Z")

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| :discourse2: | **Summary** | **Sidebar Theme Toggle** adds a theme selector in the sidebar menu’s footer provided there is more than 1 user selectable theme. This selector works with both logged-on users and anonymous users. Be sure to add this to all your user-selectable themes for easy toggling. |
| 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sidebar-theme-toggle](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sidebar-theme-toggle) |
| 📖 | **New to Discourse Themes?** | [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) |

Install this theme component

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> :discourse2: As this is an #official theme component maintained by the Discourse team, #Support, #Contribute > Bug, #Contribute > UX, and #Contribute > Feature requests can be made in the respective categories here on Meta, and tagged with the appropriate theme component tag. Click on a link below to get one started. 👍
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> [❓&nbsp; **Support**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=6&tags=sidebar-theme-toggle "Ask for support on configuring and using Sidebar Theme Toggle") [🐛&nbsp; **Bug**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=1&tags=sidebar-theme-toggle "A bug report means something is broken, preventing normal/typical use of the theme component") [👀&nbsp; **UX**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=9&tags=sidebar-theme-toggle "Discussion about the user interface of Sidebar Theme Toggle, and how features are presented (including language and UI elements)") [💡&nbsp; **Feature**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=2&tags=sidebar-theme-toggle "Discussion about how existing Sidebar Theme Toggle features can be improved or enhanced, and how proposed new features could work")

### Features

 ![sidebar theme toggle example](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/a/f/dafce294394f1c8f099477b52e719ec87721cbf0.png)

We may do some additional work here in the future to make this a more comprehensive menu that allows users to choose colors, font-sizes, and theme from one menu — but for now this grants sites the same basic behavior as the [Hamburger Theme Selector](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-theme-selector/61210)! 🚀

| Name | Description |
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| toggle icon | |
| hide theme name | |

  

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