Hello Discourse team, I run a community that would greatly benefit from allowing more than one level of subcategory (e.g., sub-subcategories). Our use case is for a community forum and the current structure is restrictive because we have few sub categories to be created upto 5. If 3 or even 5 leve…

Hi there, I think this already exists :slight_smile: [image] Number of Subcategories You need to have access to the server where Discourse is running. If you’re hosted somewhere, you’ll need to ask whoever is running the server to do this for you. cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c …

I wouldn’t trust that guy, though! [image] Salma_Quraishi: I run a community that would greatly benefit from allowing more than one level of subcategory (e.g., sub-subcategories). More often, such communities would greatly benefit from using tags. :wink:

How to enable (3+ level) nested subcategories

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awesomerobot (Kris) February 18, 2026, 2:37pm 4

Note that while max_category_nesting exists, it only supports up to 3 levels.

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How to enable (3+ level) nested subcategories

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