Introducing the admin category management page

[martin (Martin Brennan)]

As part of our overhaul of category setup ^[1][2][3], we’ve created a complete directory of categories and their specific types for easier visibility and management. The new Category management page (/admin/config/category-management) shows a list of all categories on the site and the following details:

• Category name, visibility (i.e. public or private), and topic count
• Parent / child relationships (e.g., Documentation > Developer Guides)
• The category type (i.e. discussion, events, support, or ideas)
• Quick access to category settings

You can click on the different tabs to show categories that match that particular type:

We also added a Settings tab which lists all category-related site settings for Discourse:

For our hosted customers on plans which do not currently support certain category types, an upgrade prompt will be shown. For example the Discourse Events plugin is not available on any tier lower than Business:

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1. Easily create Support categories using the discourse-solved plugin ↩︎

2. Easily create Ideas categories using the Topic Voting plugin ↩︎

3. Easily create Events categories using the Calendar and Events plugin ↩︎