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…

[afbeelding] 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 delete…

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

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.

Dringende hulp nodig! Ik heb per ongeluk de sectie "feature request" verwijderd

Ondersteuning

Kartoon 23 augustus 2025 om 23:17 7

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Announcements posts are deleted... won't undelete Support	3	465	29 juni 2023
I can't delete a category or topic description Support	27	2167	11 september 2018
Undelete A Category? (Or the "about this category" topic that was under it) Support	3	550	20 maart 2021
Confused using categories Support	7	970	21 oktober 2017
Can't undelete category description posts created by deleted user Bug	7	888	23 december 2020

Dringende hulp nodig! Ik heb per ongeluk de sectie "feature request" verwijderd

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