# Badges for specific category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-for-specific-category/89745
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [June 13, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-for-specific-category/89745 "2018-06-13T08:01:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Daria](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daria)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-for-specific-category/89745/1 "2018-06-13T08:01:49Z")
Hey,
Is it possible to give badges for getting likes just in one category so that a person can become a category specialist/master with the best reply in…for example?
I will have like 4 categories and I would like to have badges for the input to the certain topic rather than likes in all categories?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-for-specific-category/89745/2 "2018-06-13T09:03:07Z")
Sure, if you know SQL, you can write a custom badge query.
Here’s a topic for inspiration
> [@\[Superseded\] What cool badge queries have you come up with?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-cool-badge-queries-have-you-come-up-with/18978):
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> warning Enabling Badge SQL entails security and performance risks so it is not available by default. For more information, see: [Enable Badge SQL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-sql-can-no-longer-be-edited-by-default/47894) This topic became too long to be easily searched and has been broken down into separate topics. If you have any questions about how to write a badge query, or have one to share, please start a new topic in the #data & reporting category and tag it with the #sql-triggered-badge tag. +1 More ideas: [Some common badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-common-badge-queries-idea/31859)