Hi, a couple of thoughts. I’m trying (very slooooowly), to create a sidebar component, I want it to be detached from .wrap floating to the left. I still have a lot to learn, been downloading components to see how things work. So, the developer in me wonders why code added to body displays under t…

Just a few points about Bars I shared: you can have a left Sidebar it comes with html capability out of the box (you can have several html widgets) you can show additional Components on the sidebar which you can either copy from elsewhere, make or co-opt I’m not sure you’d want it to “float” as t…

Bear in mind Discourse is a web app dynamically rendered by EmberJS This might be of interest: [image] Discourse Bars beers cocktail (a sidebar framework) Theme component eyeglasses Overview A Theme Component that allows you to lay out Components [1] on top an…

Can you share how you’ve been trying to add your customization so far? is this added via the admin/customize interface? a plugin outlet in a remote theme? something else?

[image] Robert: This might be of interest: Yes, I did try your item, it’s a great component, but I’m wanting to separate the sidebar from .wrap, unless of course I’m missing something really simple - there isn’t even a plugin-outlet position for a sidebar. Thank tho, Lee

are you using this useful component? [image] (deprecated) Plugin outlet locations theme component Theme component mega the ability to debug plugin outlets is now included in core. Check out this topic for more details play_button Original theme component in…

@awesomerobot , lol I don’t have anything to show atm because I can’t get the sidebar to display on the left, mainly because there isn’t a “sidebar” position, annoying that something so simple can’t be implemented. meta uses the closest match to what I’m wanting to achieve, but to include custom fe…

@Lilly Yes I am using plugin outlets [The image displays a screenshot of a website interface, with a focus on a search-related feature. (Captioned by AI)] Thank you, Lee

@Lilly , @awesomerobot , does this mean I’d need to create a new plugin-outlet position, or isn’t this possible? thank you, Lee

why not just create a custom menu section in the existing sidebar using our inbuilt way? Just click the “+” sign at the bottom of the existing sidebar to create a new menu section: [Screenshot 2024-10-01 at 1.10.46 PM] You can make it for yourself only or global for all users (if you are admin) …

Mmmm, @Lilly well, I’m using the main sidebar as a header dropdown to accommodate a custom sidebar. I see your point, but still … Your suggestion will mean adding to the current sidebar and not create a custom sidebar. I have tried @merefield 's component and sidebar right blocks or whatever it’…

Can you describe the use case your client wants - do they specifically want the navigation menu in drop-down mode instead of sidebar, along with a separate custom sidebar for other links? For custom menu sections, I also have 2 theme components that can allow displaying them to different user group…

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merefield (Robert) October 1, 2024, 11:25am 2

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