# Cannot Create New Topics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 2, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762 "2023-10-02T16:06:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/1 "2023-10-02T16:06:05Z")
After updating to latest yesterday my users cannot create topics anymore. They get the following error: `An error occurred: You supplied invalid parameters to the request: Category not allowed for topic creation.` Nothing has changed, they have permissions to the category. I am able to repro this in [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) as well.
I see the following in the console:
Nothing relevant in the logs. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/2 "2023-10-02T16:27:06Z")
Is this happening in one category or all of them?
I saw the topic about it on your forum (I tried to join but no button lol). It seems users can create a topic in the editor but the create topic button fails when they post it. 🤔
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/3 "2023-10-02T16:43:11Z")
Okay, this is interesting. If I go straight to /new-topic the category dropdown only shows the categories they can successfully post in, even though the security settings are the same. Note all the categories in image critiques are missing.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/4 "2023-10-02T16:46:09Z")
hmmm 🤔 have you checked the `Full_Member` group settings?
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/5 "2023-10-02T16:53:05Z")
I don’t think that’s it. One of the other categories that they can post in has the same settings, and I did verify that I can post in this category with a normal non-admin account. This is really bizarre.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/6 "2023-10-02T17:15:10Z")
I believe I’ve found the issue. It’s a bug in the Custom Wizard Plugin. I’m working with Pavilion to get this fixed. Strange that it still happened in [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true), but it must go deeper than what [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) can do. Thank you for your help Lilly.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/7 "2023-10-02T17:17:10Z")
I’m glad you may have located the issue and Pavilion is helping. Good Luck. 🙂
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/8 "2023-10-02T18:48:15Z")
Maybe make sure that [GitHub - paviliondev/discourse-category-lockdown: Set all topics in a category to redirect, unless a member of specified groups · GitHub](https://github.com/davidtaylorhq/discourse-category-lockdown.git) isn’t to blame.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-create-new-topics/280762/9 "2023-11-06T21:14:01Z")
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