# Mute a category but don't hide it?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mute-a-category-but-dont-hide-it/122008>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mute-a-category-but-dont-hide-it/122008 "2019-07-03T13:27:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mute-a-category-but-dont-hide-it/122008/4 "2019-07-09T18:05:07Z")

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> [@lkramer](#):
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> I’ve been looking at the settings but no dice getting it to do what we want. (Show the category but just don’t include stuff from it in emails.)

Hmm. I think that if you want stuff to show up on the site but be hidden from emails you’d need a plugin.

Though I haven’t paid close enough attention to be useful, I think that some stuff did change about categories and muting in the past few months, so it could be that something is behaving differently.

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