Available settings within the category edit page

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This is a reference guide on the settings for parent and child categories.

Required user level: Administrator (or moderator if the moderators manage categories setting is enabled)

The Settings tab within the category edit page is a dedicated space for making changes to the display and functions of a parent or child category. Some of the settings do require plugins or site settings to be enabled in order to display. You can access this page by adding → /c/category-name/edit/settings to the end of your domain.

Settings

• Position on the categories page: (Only displays if the fixed category positions site setting is enabled)
• Number of topics shown on the categories page
• Search Priority: [Ignore, Very Low, Low, Normal (default), High, Very High]
  • Allow badges to be awarded in this category
  • Allow featured links in this category
  • Navigate to first post after topics are read
  • Make new topics wikis by default
  • Allow unlimited owner edits on first post

Moderation

• Reviewable by Group: (Only displays if the enable category group moderation site setting is enabled)
• Require moderator approval of all new topics
• Require moderator approval of all new replies
• Enable "Slow Mode" for new topics in this category: # [mins (default), hours, days, months, years]
• Auto-close topic after: # [hours (default), days, months, years]
  • Don't close until the last post in the topic is at least this old.
• Number of open topics to automatically bump daily:
  • Minimum days before bumping the same topic again:

The action post generated from an auto-bump counts as a reply. This can reset the timeframe of the auto-close setting if it is also enabled with Don't close until the last post in the topic is at least this old.

Appearance

• Default Topic List: [Hot, Latest, Top]
• Default Top Period: [All Time (default), Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily]
• Topic List Sort By: [default, Activity, Category, Created, Likes, Original Post Likes, Posters, Posts, Views]
• Default List Filter: [all topics (default), no subcategories]
  • Show subcategory list above topics in this category
• Subcategory List Style: [Rows (default), Rows with featured topics, Boxes, Boxes with featured topics]
• Banner text when a user cannot create a topic in this category:

Email

The following settings will only display if the email in site setting is enabled

• Custom incoming email address:
• Accept emails from anonymous users with no accounts
• Category mirrors a mailing list

Plugin Specific Settings

The following settings will only display when the corresponding plugins are enabled:

Assign

• Add ‘unassigned’ filter to category

Event Sorting (Calendar plugin)

• Sort topics by event start date
• Disable topic resorting

Post Voting

• New topics default to Post Voting topics in this category.
• Only allow Post Voting topics in this category.

Solved

• Allow accepted answers in this category
• Auto-close solved topics after N hours
• Notify on staff accept solved
• Show empty box on unsolved topics

Topic Voting

• Allow users to vote on topics in this category

Additional resources

• Reordering categories and setting fixed category positions
• Search Improvements in 2.3
• Automatically bumping old topics on a category
• Understanding groups and category permissions
• Discourse Topic Voting

Last edited by @pedro 2024-07-25T04:46:56Z

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