Hi everyone, I’ve somehow lost (possibly deleted) my “About the Category Name” topic. Strangely enough, on the homepage of the forums, the description that I set is still showing under the category heading name, so it must be around somewhere! Any pointers on how to find it?? I tried a normal se…

Thanks for the quick reply! Worryingly, that Edit Description button isn’t there :confused: (it is on all the other categories!) [mia]

I think you’ll have to use the rails console for that one. # ssh into server cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c Category.pluck(:name, :topic_id) You will get back a list of category names and their associated topic_id. If the one you’re looking for is “nil”, you could try that in the …

[immagine] zogstrip: I think you’ll have to use the rails console for that one. What happened that there’s no about? Is this a renamed “untitled” or something like that?

I've somehow lost my 'About' topic for a category

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zogstrip 6 Settembre 2017, 2:11pm 2

Edit the category and click the Edit Description button in the modal

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