# Force users to pick category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-users-to-pick-category/373164
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** composer
**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-users-to-pick-category/373164 "2025-07-07T11:42:08Z")
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### Author: ![alltiagocom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alltiagocom/32/492709_2.png) [@alltiagocom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alltiagocom)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-users-to-pick-category/373164/1 "2025-07-07T11:42:08Z")

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I want users to manually pick a category when creating a new post.  
I already checked the topics:

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-people-to-choose-category-before-create-a-new-topic/214077](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-people-to-choose-category-before-create-a-new-topic/214077)  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-category-selection-before-writing-topic/66236/15](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-category-selection-before-writing-topic/66236/15)

but none of them seem to address this.  
I have `Allow uncategorized topics` unchecked.

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