How to determine category id

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Hi all, how would I find a category’s id?

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When you go to the category, in the URL you’ll see /xx/ after the category title. The 5 is the category ID in this case.

/c/water-cooler/5

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Wonderful! Thank you very much!

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Hi there,

So what @JimPas suggested is fine if we only need to check the id of 2-3 categories. However, what if we need to know the category ids of all the categories (and subcategories) within our forum?

And what if our forum was like that of Mozilla with a gazillion of subcategories?

I don’t suppose we have a way to view all of them under Site Settings?

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I think the easiest way would be a data explorer query.

Something like:


SELECT name, id 
FROM categories 
ORDER BY name
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