Remove/disable Category Definitions

[Thomas_G]

The category definitions are something that must not be deleted. Because we had the same issue, we just closed and unlisted the category definitions, meaning that only mods/staff could see them.

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If I were you, I would make sure I check the post below. I am sure you will find it helpful:

Want to delete 'About this Topic'

As described, you cannot delete it, as it would break things. You can use this code at the rails console to unlist all about topics: cats = Category.all cats.each do |cat| puts "Process #{cat.name} -- #{cat.topic_id}" if cat.topic_id.to_i > 0 t = Topic.find(cat.topic_id) t.visible=false t.save end end If you want it only for some categories, you’ll need to adjust the code. If you want it to happen automatically, you’d need a plugin that did something like the above on a re…