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 would also work — because we have an app that embeds the link to that category. Could you please advise how we can proceed?

[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 empty category, in which case you can just re-create it, or you actually deleted the content before this, in which case you need help from the Discourse team and see if they can restore the lost content. Edit: I’m not sure you can restore a deleted category with the same ID, tho :thinking: Yeah, probably not: Recover deleted categories - #4 by pfaffman

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

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 23, 2025, 11:24pm 8

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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