Hello Discourse Community, I’m encountering an issue with the navigation bar settings in my Discourse forum and would appreciate any assistance or guidance you can provide. Issue: I am looking to restrict regular users from modifying the navigation bar in our community forum. However, I’m unable t…

I’m afraid this isn’t a bug. The navigation menu is specifically designed to allow individual users to customise it according to what they would find useful. Is there a reason why you would not want this to be the case?

But you should be able to guide the pencil with CSS.

@pfaffman is totally right, go to Admin > Customize [Zrzut ekranu 2023-12-21 o 01.26.09] choose your Theme than Edit CSS/HTML [Zrzut ekranu 2023-12-21 o 01.26.22] and add something like: .sidebar-section-header-button { display: none; } [Zrzut ekranu 2023-12-21 o 01.30.10] save it and …

Just an FYI, it’s generally recommended to make that kind of change in a small theme component so it can be used with remote themes, as well as being attached to multiple without editing each separately. Though I think it’s worth checking whether this is a sensible limitation to apply in the first …

The other question is “do you have evidence that users are editing this in ways that are causing you or them problems?” Pretending for a minute that users might make these changes that you think you don’t want them to, are they doing that? Are you solving a problem that doesn’t exist?

If any of your users have already customized their own categories and tags, hiding that pencil isn’t going to reset what they have already selected for their own menus. As others have pointed out, user customization of those sections is intended to be encouraged. Just in case you may not be aware,…

Unable to Restrict Users from Editing Navigation Bar

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hello-smile6 (9pfs) December 21, 2023, 12:34am 6

Is there a reason to keep users from editing the sidebar? Users cannot affect other users’ sidebar layouts, only their own.

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Unable to Restrict Users from Editing Navigation Bar

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