# Hide sub-sub-categories from /categories listing?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-sub-sub-categories-from-categories-listing/180118
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-sub-sub-categories-from-categories-listing/180118 "2021-02-17T23:24:51Z")
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-sub-sub-categories-from-categories-listing/180118/1 "2021-02-17T23:24:51Z")
I apologize that this is probably a fairly obscure question:
> Is it possible to hide sub-sub categories from the `/categories` listing?
In other (more verbose) words:
In a normal scenario, when you look at `/categories` you have lots of colored stripes along the side for Level 1, and let’s say the bullet-style squares for the sub-categories. That’s great.
But when you bring in a sub-category that has a further layer of sub-sub-categories (if enabled through the rails console!) the UI changes quite a bit, showing each sub-category in the style of a regular category (big header, description, category logo), and then the sub-sub-categories beneath that.
What I’d like to do if possible is have a sub-category with actual sub-sub-categories, just with the sub-sub’s hidden from the main front page category listing, and without changing the UI to the clunkier nested mode.
Is that possible somehow?
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-sub-sub-categories-from-categories-listing/180118/2 "2021-02-24T19:41:36Z")
FWIW, I think the way forward here in the case at hand will be to not use Discourse category listings and rather use the sidebar category list from the [Layouts Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-layouts-plugin/55208) which can support 3-level categories in the sidebar, with the topic lists to the right.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-sub-sub-categories-from-categories-listing/180118/3 "2021-03-26T19:41:47Z")
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