# Category Event Policy

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-event-policy/390053
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** events
**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-event-policy/390053 "2025-12-01T14:53:47Z")
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### Author: ![mariodsantana](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mariodsantana/32/531814_2.png) [@mariodsantana](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mariodsantana)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-event-policy/390053/1 "2025-12-01T14:53:47Z")

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| ℹ | **Summary** | Let you make discourse-calendar events required or prohibited for a category’s topics. |
| 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [GitHub - mariodsantana/discourse-event-policy · GitHub](https://github.com/mariodsantana/discourse-event-policy) |
| 📖 | **Install Guide** | [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157) |

  

### Features

This plugin allows administrators to configure event creation policies for each category, controlling whether events are:

- **Allowed** (optional) - Users can create events, but don’t have to
- **Required** (mandatory) - Topics in this category must include an event
- **Disallowed** (not permitted) - Events cannot be created in this category

> **Note:** This plugin only controls events in topic opening posts (first posts). The discourse-calendar plugin already disallows events in reply posts.

### Configuration

To configure event policies for a category:

1. Visit the category settings (Admin \> Categories \> Edit Category \> Settings tab)
2. Scroll to the “Event Policy” section
3. Select the desired policy
4. Save changes

### Site Settings

- **event\_policy\_enabled** - Enable/disable the plugin (default: true)

### Category Settings

Each category has a new setting available:

**Event Policy** (`event_policy_first_post`)

- Controls whether events are allowed/required/disallowed in topic opening posts
- Options: Allow, Require, Disallow
- Default: Allow

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