# Parent categories restricted, but child categories unrestricted?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [6월 9, 2019, 9:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863 "2019-06-09T21:09:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Profamii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Profamii)
#### Post date: [6월 9, 2019, 9:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/1 "2019-06-09T21:09:17Z")
Hi,
If anyone’s familiar with PHPBB, MyBB, XenForo, etc these forum software have their category setup differently. You would create a category and then create child forums, and in these forums is where posts can be made. Unlike Discourse where a category is where users post, yes you can create child categories but this is not what I’m looking for.
Is it possible to do something like this with Discourse? Create a category and create child forums in which users can post? I know I’m not explaining this in the best way but I hope the screenshot I provided will make sense.
PS: I know I can simply create a category and then child categories and deny permission for people to post in the parent category but then there will be this annoying topic list that I can’t do anything about.
EDIT: If I’m still not making sense, please let me know and I’ll try to explain again. Any help would be much appreciated. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Cozdabuch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cozdabuch)
#### Post date: [6월 9, 2019, 10:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/2 "2019-06-09T22:03:47Z")
I’ve asked. Doesn’t seem to be on the roadmap. Extensive redev of homepage would be required
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### Author:  [@Profamii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Profamii)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 8:51오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/3 "2019-06-10T08:51:36Z")
Well, is there any sort of workaround to be able to achieve this or something similar in the mean time?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 8:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/4 "2019-06-10T08:54:51Z")
> [@Profamii](#):
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> but then there will be this annoying topic list that I can’t do anything about
What does this mean?
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### Author:  [@Profamii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Profamii)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 9:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/5 "2019-06-10T09:10:32Z")
This will be shown in the parent category, which I don’t like/want.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 9:58오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/6 "2019-06-10T09:58:06Z")
You want to unlist the category description topics so that they aren’t listed?
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### Author:  [@Profamii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Profamii)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 10:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/7 "2019-06-10T10:26:17Z")
Sure, let’s try it and see how it looks, how could do we do that?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 10:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/8 "2019-06-10T10:27:49Z")
Navigate to the topic. Click the wrench and choose unlisted.
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### Author:  [@Profamii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Profamii)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 1:34오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/9 "2019-06-10T13:34:34Z")
I guess this could work for now. Is there any way to hide this?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 2:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/10 "2019-06-10T14:03:21Z")
Create some topics in that category?
EDIT: Ooops. Sorry. I hadn’t realized that was the parent category. Sometimes, free advice is worth what you pay for it!
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### Author:  [@Profamii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Profamii)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 2:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/11 "2019-06-10T14:31:33Z")
I just told you that the parent category won’t have any posts in it as I’m trying to replicate a category setup similar to what MyBB and others use. I don’t want the parent category to have any posts (if you read my first post, you’ll understand better.)
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### Author:  [@Profamii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Profamii)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 6:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/12 "2019-06-10T18:46:19Z")
Anyone got ideas on how to do this?
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Jefferies](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tim_Jefferies)
#### Post date: [6월 10, 2019, 9:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/13 "2019-06-10T21:09:20Z")
On my instance if I click on the parent category, it shows posts from the child categories, kind of like an overview.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [11월 12, 2022, 11:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/14 "2022-11-12T23:10:25Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [11월 13, 2022, 6:12오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-categories-restricted-but-child-categories-unrestricted/119863/15 "2022-11-13T06:12:21Z")