The discussion revolves around how to hide specific categories from the “Latest” topics list in Discourse. alltiagocom initially asked where the default categories muted site setting is located, noting they couldn’t find it on their trial instance and wondering if it was a premium feature. David_Ghost suggested using a community plugin to suppress categories. However, alltiagocom clarified that plugins are not available on trial or lowest-tier hosted plans, expressing a desire for a native feature. Lilly guided alltiagocom to the setting under “All Site Settings” by filtering for “default categories,” explaining it applies to watching and tracking preferences. alltiagocom later reported that even after self-hosting, using the “Default Categories Watching” setting did not exclude topics from the main Topics page as intended; they specifically wanted to prevent active categories (like “Classifieds”) from crowding the latest list. Consequently, Lilly recommended the discourse-categories-suppressed plugin, noting it effectively hides categories from /latest while keeping them visible on the categories page, unlike the site setting which affects notification preferences.
I saw some topics about this, but I can’t find the option to hide it. For example:
Where is this default categories muted site settings?
I looked inside all options in https://dannytest.discourse.group/admin/site_settings, but I can’t find it.
I’m still on the trial version. Is this a “premium” feature or something?
Hey, you can use this:
I saw that plugin as well, but that won’t work on the trial version or the lowest paid hosted plan, which will be the one I will be on once I start my forum.
I wish this was available natively as a feature…
So what is that default categories muted site settings that people are talking about on that topic?
EDIT: I’m now self-hosting, not on a trial version anymore.
Thank you for sharing.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to work, or I’m missing something.
I added all categories to the Default Categories Watching, except one.
Then I created a new topic on that one I excluded, but when I go back to the main Topics page, I can see the topics there, the ones that were supposed to be excluded.
Maybe that option is not what I’m looking for?
If my question was not clear enough, I basically just want to exclude topics from a certain category from the main Topics page. For example if I have a Classifieds category and it’s very active, I don’t want new topics showing up in the Latest, because that will crowd the list for other users more interested in real discussions.
Hope it makes sense…
have you tried this plugin? i use it on multiple sites to hide certain categories from the topic list pages like /latest. unlike the Default categories muted setting, the categories will show up normally on the categories page.
