# Asking for access to a private category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/asking-for-access-to-a-private-category/21135>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 14, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/asking-for-access-to-a-private-category/21135 "2014-10-14T21:12:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![rilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rilla/32/121738_2.png) [@rilla](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rilla)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/asking-for-access-to-a-private-category/21135/5 "2016-06-05T11:53:49Z")

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I’ve put together a plugin to address this. It’s not pretty but it does the job for the time being. Comments and PRs are super-welcome.

[https://github.com/rilla/discourse-show-private-categories](https://github.com/rilla/discourse-show-private-categories)

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