# Category selector for latest **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [2015 年 12 月 6 日午前 11:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selector-for-latest/36371 "2015-12-06T11:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\ **Post date:** [2015 年 12 月 6 日午前 11:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selector-for-latest/36371/1 "2015-12-06T11:23:56Z")
I’ve been mulling over this particular challenge for a while, and recently realised that the solution would probably be of use to lots of discourse sites. Our latest page is anything but a one-size fits-all solution. It’s the closest we’ve got, but it doesn’t scratch the proverbial itch for anyone particularly well. The problem is that different groups of users need very different views. Infrequent visitors are probably the ones who get the most use from the current view, having filtered out the high-volume posts including news stubs generated by the WordPress plugin. Frequent visitors would prefer to see those posts included, but there’s no easy solution to achieve this. Members of staff would likely fall into this group as well, lest something be missed. As a ‘senior’ staff member, I have access to more internal categories and primarily need to see more of those internal discussions, external stuff is interesting, but only once or twice a day. Has anyone experimented with adding a category selector to latest, so that users can customise which categories appear? It could be something as simple as the ‘all tags’ drop down at the top, a new floating UI element to the side of latest, or a condensed category list sitting above latest which only lists categories that have activity in the past x days or posts. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selector-for-latest/36371)._