# Discourse Custom Topic Lists

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**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** experimental\
**Created:** [June 7, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-custom-topic-lists/311186 "2024-06-07T19:42:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-custom-topic-lists/311186/21 "2025-07-23T13:29:35Z")

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One more follow-up question: How do you recommend targeting individual categories when multiple categories have the same name? I.e, we have a News category for all of our products, so over a dozen News categories.

I’m trying something like parent:child or ID# but they don’t seem to be working.

**Update:** shoutout to @gabriel for working this out! You can target multiple categories with the same name by using the full category path. Also worth noting, separate with a comma with **no space**.

`category:products:auditor:news,products:data-classification:news,products:access-analyzer:news`

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