Styling the sidebar without using CSS?

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@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 Features This theme component is used alongside the Category Badge Styles theme component Here is an example of how this would look, with category bad…