Eyooo! I posted about this kind of thing a long time ago to help people add reuglar use things that they want in their side bar. But back then a heap of people didn't realise that custom sidebar items were a thing that you could easily do by adding a couple of lines of yaml to your config file for whatever you want to have apear.

Anyway I figured with the new 2026.11 update moving HACS into the settings menu and removing it from the side panel I'd drop this here for any of you who might want it back on the side menu again where you're used to seeing it.

#Custom Pannels panel_custom: - name: Marketplace sidebar_title: Marketplace sidebar_icon: mdi:store js_url: /api/hassio/app/entrypoint.js url_path: marketplace/browse embed_iframe: true require_admin: true

This isn't a new thing btw its been around for forever and you can do it for just about any part of the UI you can think of. I also have one for my automations just to make it something I don't have to dig into extra menus for etc.…