# Pinning Topics in Subcategories + Parent Category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinning-topics-in-subcategories-parent-category/44966>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 29, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinning-topics-in-subcategories-parent-category/44966 "2016-05-29T05:44:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pinning-topics-in-subcategories-parent-category/44966/1 "2016-05-29T05:44:32Z")

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I think it would be very useful to have the option when pinning a subcategory topic to make it pinned for both the subcategory and parent category, instead of just the subcategory.

I see discussions of similar (but for not pinning subcategory topics in the parent category) here:

> [@Hiding Sub-Category Pin Topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-sub-category-pin-topics/16559):
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> Heyah, I’m not a big fan of pinned topics to be honest. I feel they are a misused Forum-Way of collecting FAQ and category description (which is exactly the way we are handling them here, too). Both of which might be important to the novice (not logged in and/or trust-level-1) but are mostly annoyance to the advanced user and take up all this great top-space for so many lists. And though I’d personally loved to see a category-banner-topic like the [application pin banner](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-banner-topic-pin-type/16458) (including the dismissal…

> [@Hide all sub-category pins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-all-sub-category-pins/26021):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Hiding Sub-Category Pin Topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-sub-category-pin-topics/16559/6): Currently discourse only hides description pins from sub-categories. Would it be possible to extend this to all sub-category pins, or somehow allow other pins in sub-categories to be hidden in parent categories? On our forum some categories have both a description pin, and also a number of “template” topics pinned. Having all of these templates appear in the parent category quickly makes it look messy.

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