# Child category inheriting topic template from parent category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/child-category-inheriting-topic-template-from-parent-category/124666
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 1, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/child-category-inheriting-topic-template-from-parent-category/124666 "2019-08-01T21:41:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Perry\_Eising](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Perry_Eising)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/child-category-inheriting-topic-template-from-parent-category/124666/1 "2019-08-01T21:41:49Z")
Hi there,
Is there a way to have topics posted in child categories have the topic template that was set on the parent category?
Our forum has a lot of child categories that ideally would inherit topic templates from their parent category to avoid lots of copy/pasting and “needing to make the same change many times”
Is this possible?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/child-category-inheriting-topic-template-from-parent-category/124666/2 "2019-08-02T02:36:33Z")
Not at the moment, I can think of a couple of alternatives here:
- If the updates only happen once every month or so and really there are lots of child categories, we can help by running a script for you that does the inheritance
- We can write a custom plugin for you that would do the “sync” automatically.
- I think, we can even swing a theme component for this… which is pretty cool. (when you save a particular category have it save the template into all children)
Automatic inheritance of permission and other attributes is a feature we have avoided building due to complexity.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2023, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/child-category-inheriting-topic-template-from-parent-category/124666/3 "2023-02-05T08:13:24Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2023, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/child-category-inheriting-topic-template-from-parent-category/124666/4 "2023-02-05T09:14:02Z")