# Customizing the Category About post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 1, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850 "2016-04-01T00:45:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@nskerl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nskerl)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/1 "2016-04-01T00:45:46Z")
Is it possible to customize the text that is used to prepopulate the “About the \_\_\_\_ category” post?
I would like to modify the list of prompts in that text.
Can this be done via a plugin, or should I consider this post off limits to customization? If so, then my next question is going to be can I use a plugin to auto-generate a post when a new category is created?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/2 "2016-04-01T00:46:55Z")
You can use the Customize Text section in the Admin area
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### Author:  [@nskerl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nskerl)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/3 "2016-04-01T00:50:59Z")
Can it be conditional? For example, if you want different text in the about post when a subcategory is created in one particular _parent_ category.
I was able to find the `category.replace_paragraph` element in Text Content. That’s what I want to affect for a specific Category (or any subcategories created within that specific Category).
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/4 "2016-04-01T02:15:34Z")
I don’t understand. That text is meant to be overriden with whatever you want it to say after you create the category? So why not just edit the post title/description accordingly?
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### Author:  [@nskerl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nskerl)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/5 "2016-04-01T03:02:48Z")
Yes, this is a bit of an edge feature. We have a category called _Projects_ in which we allow teams to create sub-categories when they start a new project. Its just there to group discussion for the small team working on the project.
We want to use that initial _about post_ to prompt the creator of the subcategory with some guidance that is specific to starting a new project. I dont want that text showing up when other categories are created outside the Projects category.
We can just override the text with our own template every time we create a new subcategory here, but I was just looking into automating it to keep it consistent.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/6 "2016-04-01T03:09:28Z")
You would be approaching plugin territory with that, as I don’t see that being something a majority of instances would need… Or just have some general documentation that guides the teams that create sub-categories on what to enter
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### Author:  [@nskerl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nskerl)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/7 "2016-04-01T04:22:45Z")
Maybe making it customizable on the Category settings page would be more applicable to others… and if it propagated down to subcats, but I definitely agree its a total edge feature request.
Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 7:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/8 "2016-04-01T07:11:14Z")
This is something we would find extremely useful also - we also have a category which gets many sub categories added within of which we have to edit each one of the about topics
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/9 "2016-04-01T15:25:18Z")
> [@mikechristopher](#):
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> we have to edit each one of the about topics
Doesn’t that need to be done anyway for the category to show in Latest?
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### Author:  [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-category-about-post/41850/10 "2016-04-04T09:24:49Z")
We have a number of prefilled topics that we create everytime we create a group / category so would still appear.