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: [afbeelding] 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 rai…

I wouldn’t trust that guy, though! [afbeelding] 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) 18 februari 2026 om 14:37 4

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

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Confusion about nesting a subcategory inside of another Support	3	477	1 juli 2023
Subforum structure Support	3	683	23 oktober 2022
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Having a sub + sub category Feature	8	728	22 maart 2023
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How to enable (3+ level) nested subcategories

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