---
title: "Sidebar"
description: "Choose what appears in your own sidebar and in what order, and star the pages you use most."
url: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/sidebar/"
lang: en
alternates:
  en: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/sidebar/"
  hu: "https://docs.poltura.com/hu/settings/sidebar/"
---

# Sidebar

Choose what appears in your own sidebar and in what order, and star the pages you use most.

- Where: Settings → Sidebar

The Sidebar page lets you arrange the main sidebar of the admin the way you work. Hide what you do not use, change the order and star your most used pages as favorites. The arrangement is yours alone. It does not change anyone else's sidebar, and it is saved per store.

Hiding a page only tidies up the sidebar. A hidden page stays in search, opens from its address as before, and no permission changes.

![The Sidebar page with the Favorites settings and the Overview and Sales sections, each row with a star, arrows to move it and a switch](https://docs.poltura.com/screenshots/en/settings/sidebar.webp)

_The star adds a row to Favorites, the arrows move it, the switch hides or shows it._

## Before you start

Every team member can use this page, whatever their role. You also reach it from the **Customize** row at the end of the **Apps** group in the sidebar.

## Read the page

- **Favorites** at the top lists the pages you starred, in their own order.
- One section follows for each section of the sidebar: **Overview**, **Sales**, **Store** and **Apps**. Under each list, a line such as "6 of 8 shown" counts the visible rows.
- **Preview** shows what your sidebar will look like.

If you never customized your sidebar, everything in the first three sections is shown, and in **Apps** the first 8 are shown. Further apps are hidden until you show them.

## Arrange your sidebar

1. Open **Settings** and choose **Sidebar**.
2. To hide or show a row, use its switch. **Home** is marked **Always shown** and cannot be hidden.
3. To change the order, drag a row by its handle, or use its up and down arrows. A row moves within its own section only.
4. To add a favorite, click the star on a row. The row appears in **Favorites**. Click the star again to take it out.
5. Watch the **Preview** follow your changes.
6. A bar with **Unsaved changes** appears. Click **Save**, or press `Ctrl` + `S` (`Cmd` + `S` on a Mac). A message confirms "Sidebar saved" and the sidebar changes.

**Discard** in the save bar drops your unsaved changes.

> **Warning**
>
> Save before you leave the page. Unsaved changes are lost without a warning.

## Use favorites

Favorites appear as a **Favorites** group at the very top of your sidebar, above **Overview**, so one click takes you to the pages you use most. Two switches control it:

- **Show Favorites group**: shows the group at the top of the sidebar once you have a favorite.
- **Also keep favorites in their section**: when it is off, a favorite shows only in the Favorites group and not in its own section as well.

A favorite is a shortcut to the page. A row you hid in its section can still be a favorite.

## Go back to the default

**Reset to defaults** at the top of the page returns your sidebar to the default arrangement.

> **Warning**
>
> Resetting removes your whole arrangement, including your favorites and any unsaved changes, without asking for confirmation. It cannot be undone.

## Good to know

- If you hide every row of **Sales** or **Store**, that section disappears from your sidebar. Its block stays on this page so you can bring it back.
- If you hide every app, the **Apps** group stays with only the **Customize** row, so you can always get back here.
- After your first save, an app you install later is added to your sidebar as visible. Before that, an app installed beyond the first 8 starts hidden.
- When an app is uninstalled, your choice for it is remembered and applies again if the app comes back.
- Whether the **Apps** and **Favorites** groups are folded open is remembered per browser, separately from this arrangement.
- A change you saved on another device can take up to a minute to show.
- Pages you may not open because of your role are not listed here at all.

## If something goes wrong

- **"The sidebar was not saved. Try again."** Save again. If it keeps failing, reload the page and sign in again. Your session may have ended.
- **"Sidebar settings are not available right now".** Try again in a moment. Your sidebar keeps its current layout.
- **A page you need is missing from the sidebar.** You may have hidden it. Find it with search, or switch it back on here. See [Admin basics](https://docs.poltura.com/en/start/admin-basics/#search).
- **An app is not in the list.** It is not installed or not switched on for this store. See [App Store](https://docs.poltura.com/en/apps/#turn-on).

## Related

- [Admin basics](https://docs.poltura.com/en/start/admin-basics/)
- [Your profile](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/profile/)
- [App Store](https://docs.poltura.com/en/apps/)
- [Store settings and selling defaults](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/selling/)
- [Notifications and alerts](https://docs.poltura.com/en/settings/notifications/)