# Hoe sta ik toe dat mensen categorieën zien, maar geen toegang krijgen tot onderwerpen?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-allow-people-to-see-categories-but-not-access-topics/211507
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8 december 2021 om 15:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-allow-people-to-see-categories-but-not-access-topics/211507 "2021-12-08T15:35:43Z")
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### Author: ![TruthSeekah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@TruthSeekah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TruthSeekah)
#### Post date: [8 december 2021 om 15:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-allow-people-to-see-categories-but-not-access-topics/211507/1 "2021-12-08T15:35:43Z")

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Hi, how can I let people see a **category** but not let them see the **topics** unless they have permission?

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [8 december 2021 om 19:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-allow-people-to-see-categories-but-not-access-topics/211507/2 "2021-12-08T19:56:44Z")

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I think this might do the trick [Category Previews](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-previews/155296)

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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [8 december 2021 om 21:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-allow-people-to-see-categories-but-not-access-topics/211507/3 "2021-12-08T21:33:59Z")

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Also related Derek @TruthSeekah :

> [@Is there a way to show Category headings to users that can't access them?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-show-category-headings-to-users-that-cant-access-them/107045):
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> I’ll try to explain blush Our club has various membership levels, the higher the membership level the more categories on our Discourse you have access too. We have a handful of categories that are completely hidden to people who don’t have access to them. In here we have things like club discounts, off topic discussions we don’t want indexed by search engines, etc. Is it possible to reveal the headings of some of these these categories to everyone (even to people not logged in), so they ca…

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### Author: ![Ahmed\_Gagan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ahmed_gagan/32/161985_2.png) [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [9 december 2021 om 10:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-allow-people-to-see-categories-but-not-access-topics/211507/4 "2021-12-09T10:37:41Z")

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You can have a look at [Discourse Category Lockdown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advertise-activity-in-a-private-category-discourse-category-lockdown/70649) plugin, this might help you