Is there, or can there be, a way to keep the already assigned category associated with a discussion, but to prevent its further use going forward, except where an existing topic receives a reply? I have an ‘archive’ category that relates to discussions imported from a now defunct forum on another p…

Make sure you’re not testing as an admin user; you’ll bypass that restriction.

Preventing further use of a category

supermathie (Michael Brown) March 16, 2023, 4:39pm 7

indeed

admin is very much like root, rather than a user with sudo

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