# Notify an admin that they are reading a private category they are not a member of

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevenir-un-administrateur-quil-lit-une-categorie-privee-dont-il-nest-pas-membre/412778
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [18 september 2026 om 15:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevenir-un-administrateur-quil-lit-une-categorie-privee-dont-il-nest-pas-membre/412778 "2026-09-18T15:28:22Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [18 september 2026 om 16:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevenir-un-administrateur-quil-lit-une-categorie-privee-dont-il-nest-pas-membre/412778/5 "2026-09-18T16:56:00Z")

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This does seem like a reasonable warning to include in that theme component, I’ve opened up a PR against it for consideration

> <https://github.com/davidtaylorhq/discourse-admin-warnings/pull/7>
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> This adds a warning when an admin is posting in a category that restricts postin…g to a group they don't belong to. 
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> \<img width="800" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e8bfeb8-62a7-4273-9c22-6e66c94e6769" /\>
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> When a topic is closed, it shows a combined message
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> \<img width="800" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c466cd07-8720-4d87-ad74-2556fa1af514" /\>
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> This feature can be disabled with the \`category\_permission\_warning\` theme setting 
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> New specs are included!

Once merged, it would enable warnings like this

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/5/8/d5812e821d7e1d98eabb9937ec9f3ce8a8657b1c.png)

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