# Easily create Support categories using the discourse-solved plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/easily-create-support-categories-using-the-discourse-solved-plugin/398338
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** solved, categories
**Created:** [March 17, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easily-create-support-categories-using-the-discourse-solved-plugin/398338 "2026-03-17T02:38:07Z")
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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easily-create-support-categories-using-the-discourse-solved-plugin/398338/6 "2026-03-19T02:59:20Z")

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> [@Moin](#):
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> What led to the choice of 2 days being the default closing period?

Not sure, 48 hours is the current default, we didn’t change this.

> [@Moin](#):
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> The previous phrasing was much clearer

Will fix this up, didn’t mean to remove the “after the last reply” part.

> [@Moin](#):
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> It would be great if you could avoid forcing lowercase of the type in the “new xxx category” heading.

Okay we can do this, it violates [Formatting text in Discourse documentation and UIs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-text-in-discourse-documentation-and-uis/324637?tl=en/t/formatting-text-in-discourse-documentation-and-uis/324637?tl=en) a bit but we don’t want to follow that and have translations be wrong, so I will fix.

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