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…

[Bild] 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 e…

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.

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Unterstützung

Kartoon 23. August 2025 um 23:17 7

Sie haben also gerade einen leeren gelöscht? Erstellen Sie einfach einen neuen mit demselben Namen

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Announcements posts are deleted... won't undelete Support	3	467	29. Juni 2023
I can't delete a category or topic description Support	27	2186	11. September 2018
Undelete A Category? (Or the "about this category" topic that was under it) Support	3	557	20. März 2021
Confused using categories Support	7	983	21. Oktober 2017
Can't undelete category description posts created by deleted user Bug	7	903	23. Dezember 2020

Dringende Hilfe benötigt! Ich habe versehentlich den Abschnitt „Feature Request“ gelöscht

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