I can’t figure out for the life of me how to delete the “Staff” category. Have tried deleting all of the topics however 4 of them remain in the list. When I go to the Edit screen, it says cannot delete as it has 3 topics. Can someone guide me in the right direction? Thanks!

Deleting this built-in category is not supported, or recommended.

Is there a specific reason you want to delete it? To my knowledge, that category is also used to upload images that may be needed to brand and style the ui itself.

Ok, I’m not even going to ask why. Having a message to this effect in the UI would be really helpful. Right now it says two misleading things: “Warning: This category is a pre-seeded category and the security settings cannot be edited. If you do not wish to use this category, delete it instead of…

Mainly because the terms of service, privacy policy, and guidelines / faq are in the Staff category and required for all sites. Note the count of topics I just referred to : three.

So, how to hide Staff Category? Or change security, I don’t want “moderators” see this page. Is it possible to change security level, just only admin to see it? thanks

You can do that by editing the security settings like you would any category. Go to the category you wish to edit, click the “edit” button in the upper right corner, go to the security tab, click “edit permissions”, and remove everything except admins.

That isn’t an option: [image]

You are correct, for staff category, ,we can edit or delete this category

I’d like to add another group with access, but you can’t manually change security settings for the Staff category. Is it still not recommended or supported to delete the category and replace it with another manually created Staff category?

It can’t be deleted. If you want an area for staff discussion, rather than for staff-only access to critical things, create a new category for that purpose.

I’m able to delete it fine in 2.2.1. Hence why I’m asking if it’s still not recommended, and if there could be any bad consequences from doing so.

Delete the Staff Category?

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Stephen (Stephen) February 16, 2019, 2:18pm 19

What will you do in the future if code fails to build because an update tries to write an object to a built-in category which you’ve deleted against the advice of the developers?

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