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?

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

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c29e72280157a0b844657b42d441ebb577117d6b

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

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