# Is there support for custom topic field per Category?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-support-for-custom-topic-field-per-category/31986>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Août 11, 2015, 6:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-support-for-custom-topic-field-per-category/31986 "2015-08-11T06:37:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![RonnChyran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ronnchyran/32/116334_2.png) [@RonnChyran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RonnChyran)\
**Post date:** [Août 24, 2015, 4:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-support-for-custom-topic-field-per-category/31986/4 "2015-08-24T16:19:59Z")

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I’d be interested in a feature like this. I’m planning to have a Discourse instance be the backbone of a plugin repository; each plugin would have a topic in a certain category with a field that can be set. An external frontend would then query the API for information from Discourse such as download link, version, and author.

Edit: I found this but it’s not clear how to use this. I’ve also been studying the tagging plugin but I have no idea how that works, I just want to be able to add a custom field to the json output of the topic.

> [@zogstrip](#):
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> > [@santouras](#):
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> > adding fields onto Topics/Posts, that might make it worth having this kind of functionality be easier to tap into?
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> We already have [post\_details.rb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/post_detail.rb) but it isn’t used anywhere it appears. Would that be sufficient? I’d be more than happy to improve the API for plugins.

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