# Discourse Doc Categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** official, doc-categories\
**Created:** [August 26, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376 "2024-08-26T23:00:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_Harakaly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/james_harakaly/32/427413_2.png) [@James\_Harakaly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/James_Harakaly)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376/57 "2024-09-26T13:20:18Z")

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Amazing work everyone on this plug-in!!

NOOB here so I apologize in advance! I have been trying to figure this out on my own for a while now but I can’t find a solution anywhere. ☹

I am trying to use this plug-in as a way to organize individuals user projects at the category level.

We are trying to create a forum that will have a bunch of different user projects on it. We originally had them all under category of “projects”, so when someone would click on projects they would see all the subcategory boxes listing out all the individual projects in a pretty UI look and feel (sudo project marketplace).  
But by doing that we lose that one level of data organization because the individual projects start as subcategories instead of categories.

I was super excited when I found this plugin because I figured it would be perfect for organizing all the projects at the category level allowing us to have better data organization within the projects.

So I’m now creating individual projects as individual categories (fishing lure, project 2, project 3) and using the doc categories plug into basically create a table of contents of all the projects so that people can click on the new projects category that’s being run by the doc cat plugin and use the drop down menu to navigate through the subcategories and topics that we choose to list in the index topic.

Is there a way to have categories displayed in the middle column so that it resembles the view of “all categories” page in the normal discourse feed?

I want to have it so that when I click on the projects doc category that it lists all the projects on the left in the menu but then also displays them in the boxes in the main feed just like it does normally with subcategories. I was only allowed to put one image on this post so I put the image of the projects in the menu on the left and I would like to have the category boxes showing in the middle where my topic post is showing.

Thanks in advance for any help and guidance.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/2/1/32102ca30bd170ac1c6339690debf20c9d954d04.jpeg)

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