I created a category on my forum called “Contest Submissions”. This category will be reserved to submissions for when our company runs a contest. I’ve figured out how to create a topic template for the body of a new topic, but I can’t figure out how to edit the title of that topic. Here’s what I mea…

Discourse assigns an id to each category that gets created, so you can use that to accomplish your goal. You’ll need to add a bit of custom code to a theme component and add it to your active theme(s) Here’s the commented code for what you want to achieve. <script type="text/discourse-plugin" ver…

Just came across this and excited to use it in combination with the Experimental Form Templates as people may forget to enter a title and not know what to put there…but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Anyone know if this still works?

This is now in core FEAT: category-specific topic title placeholder (#38593) committed 03:23PM - 16 Mar 26 UTC (UTC) [image] tannerabread +226 …

Is it possible to change Topic Title prompt for a category?

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dax (Daniela) March 16, 2026, 5:55pm 4

This is now in core

Topic		Replies	Views
Small feature request: ability to change text of "New Topic" button per category Feature topic-button-text , completed	6	658	June 11, 2025
Can I customize the welcome message shown when creating a new topic based on the chosen tag or category? Support	4	930	September 7, 2022
Topic Template "Templates" Feature	6	1612	April 30, 2019
Change category <title> Support	12	1416	January 19, 2020
Customize Text: + New Topic Support	3	598	March 11, 2020

Is it possible to change Topic Title prompt for a category?

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