We are paid members of Discourse. I accidentally deleted a category, and since this is our first time using the platform, we didn’t make a backup beforehand. Is there any way to restore that category? Alternatively, if I can create a new category with the same URL slug as the original one, that woul…

[image] yachun_li: We are paid members of Discourse You can email team@discourse.org in this case (though the community is also good to help), but I think they usually don’t work on weekends. You can’t delete a category if you don’t delete the topics in it beforehand. Either you deleted an …

The new one will have a new category id, which is the only part of the url that matters. It week be easier to uodate whatever is writing to discourse.

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Kartoon August 23, 2025, 11:17pm 7

So you just deleted an empty one? Just make a new one with the same name

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Urgent help needed!I accidentally deleted the "feature request" section

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