# "About this category" topics cannot be pinned globally
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024 "2017-09-29T12:02:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/1 "2017-09-29T12:02:34Z")
I’m working on a site with two globally pinned topics. One is at the top of latest, but not the other.
The one that’s not showing on latest does appear at the top of its category page, just not on latest.
Is not that it’s un-pinned.
I’m stumped.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/2 "2017-09-29T12:15:34Z")
Maybe “Suppress this category from the homepage.” is enabled for one of the categories?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/3 "2017-09-29T12:22:41Z")
That’s not it (but a great idea!).
Is sorted by created,but I tried changing it to latest and no not.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/4 "2017-09-29T15:57:46Z")
I am not sure a topic with a category can be globally pinned in the manner you are describing? Try removing the category.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/5 "2017-10-02T15:45:30Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> I’m stumped. It’s v1.7.0.beta10.
Just checking, you do mean 1. **9**.0.beta10, right?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/6 "2017-10-02T16:38:56Z")
I do. Apparently I broke my rule of always copy-and-pasting such.
```
Discourse 1.9.0.beta10
```
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/7 "2017-10-03T16:41:13Z")
I figured it out.
They had used the “About this category” post as a regular post. As it turns out, you can’t globally pin an “About this category” post.
I don’t know if there’s anything to be done about people trying to do this. It seems pretty obvious that the “about this category” is supposed to, you know, be _about the category._
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/8 "2024-06-08T12:44:07Z")
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