# Topic List Sidebars **URL:** \ **Category:** Theme component\ **Tags:** official, topic-list-sidebars\ **Created:** [January 25, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-sidebars/107561 "2019-01-25T21:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![cakeitier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@cakeitier](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cakeitier)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-sidebars/107561/60 "2025-06-06T20:12:13Z")
Hello. I was looking to use this theme component for my forum, specifically our /categories (home), /hot, and /latest pages only — not each category page. But it seems like it is now not possible to manually type an entry for the “category name” setting as quoted below, you have to pick a category from the drop-down? Would appreciate any clarification! > [@Discourse](#): > > Set a sidebar to be displayed on the /latest, /new, /unread, and /top pages by using `all` as the category name in your settings. It seems to be a side effect of sorts, from this change: > [@awesomerobot](#): > > You can now select categories from the dropdown instead of manually adding slugs --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-sidebars/107561)._