# Howto show the topic id in Metadata of initial Post

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [Julho 4, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-show-the-topic-id-in-metadata-of-initial-post/65567 "2017-07-04T09:37:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![nstoecki42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nstoecki42/32/75218_2.png) [@nstoecki42](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nstoecki42)\
**Post date:** [Julho 4, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-show-the-topic-id-in-metadata-of-initial-post/65567/1 "2017-07-04T09:37:01Z")

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I tried to display the Topic ID in the initial Post of all topics of a specific category but failed. I could not find a way by configuring Discourse and also a plugin - similar to [Discourse BBCODE](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode-color/) - failed to work.

Could you please give me a clear hint on how to realize to display the Topic ID in the initial Post metadata of each topic of a specific category?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/c/4c3b4240f5909abd7a542f607f45d8de8f1f1b58.png)

I need this to continue the customer expectations of the old system as well some related functions and behavior.

Thanks a lot!

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