discourse-tc-bars 🍻 🍸

A Theme Component that allows you to lay out Components ("widgets¹") on top and side bars

Specify a set of "widgets" distinctly for Route and Position.
Supports setups for each of: discovery², topic, tag³, category³ OR categories³.
"Bars" can be either: top, left, right OR alternative right location.
Each bar can be collapsed or dismissed (refresh browser to reset dismiss). They can be minimised by default.
Handles the Official Sidebar, but if you intend you use a Bars Left Sidebar, the Dropdown mode of the official Sidebar is recommended.
It comes with existing example settings that show some big letters, partly as a demo and partly so you can see example settings. Delete these and replace with your own Component names.
Ships with one Component: bars-custom-html (see pre-filled example settings) - but components from many existing Theme Components & Plugins are compatible.
Mobile support is not yet implemented.

Footnotes

Discourse "widgets" have been deprecated, so this TC only supports Components (in any case Glimmer Components are fast and much more pleasant to develop) ↩
the term 'discovery' (route) refers to the main Topic List pages (e.g. "Latest", "New") that allow you to browse available Topics before clicking and diving into a specific one. ↩
technically also a "discovery" route but we're breaking these out to distinct names so you can treat them differently if you so choose. ↩ ↩² ↩³