Styling the sidebar without using CSS?

[MarximusMG]

Hey everyone!

I’m wanting to know if there’s a way to configure the styling of the sidebar in the admin panel without using CSS?

I’m wanting the sidebar on my site (shown below) to match the simple styling that’s used in the Discourse forum.

Thanks in advance!

[JammyDodger]

Ours is just the Default styling here on Meta. Though it also looks like you may need to update your Discourse to pull in the latest changes.

What bits in particular are you trying to replicate?

[MarximusMG]

Gotcha! I’ve customized my Discourse install quite a bit, so I haven’t used the auto update in the admin dashboard to upgrade from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0.

I’ll be spending some time shortly to update to 3.2.0 and hopefully that will bring the styling in line with the default styling.

Specifically, I was wanting to increase the font size of the category titles, as well as change the sidebar background color to #FFFFFF.

On this topic of sidebar customization, I’m also curious to know if there’s any way to replace the bullet visual style for the category badges with emojis?

For instance instead of the standard:

replacing the colorized bullets with an emoji like this:

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

@MarximusMG

I’m also curious to know if there’s any way to replace the bullet visual style for the category badges with emojis?

Hi!

This is possible with this theme component:

Twemoji Icons

Summary Use Twitter emojis as icons in Discourse. Repository GitHub - nolosb/discourse-twemoji-icons: Use twemojis as icons in Discourse. Install Guide How to install a theme or theme component New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component The component adds Twitter emojis as icons. You can use emojis to add category and tag icons using the respective compon…

Note that it’s not quite optimized (see the replies) and can only use Twitter’s emojis.

As an alternative, there’s this:

Category Icons

Summary Category Icons allows category badge links to have icons next to the category name. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-icons New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Here is an example of how this would look, with category style set to none: [image] Here is how this would look with category style set to box: [image] Configuration is…

[MarximusMG]

Thank you so much, this is really helpful!