Requiring a Category Before Posting

Is there a way to require the selection of a Category that is not “Uncategorized” before allowing someone to post? Too many posts go into Uncategorized and a lot of time is spent re-categorizing posts because some people just don’t bother.

There is! Disabling the uncategorized category will require users to choose a category before they can start typing. To do so, go to site settings and uncheck allow uncategorized topics.

Users will see the following when trying to post:

Thanks for the quick answer!

Does this option still allow people to choose “Uncategorized” as the category before posting? If so, is there a way to prevent that so all posts are categorized?

No it does not. If the site setting allow uncategorized topics is disabled, uncategorized is no longer an option for users or staff to select.

Great, that’s perfect, thanks!

이제 기본 컴포저 카테고리 관리자 설정도 사용할 수 있습니다. 이 설정을 통해 기존 카테고리를 지정하면, 컴포저를 열 때 자동으로 해당 카테고리가 입력됩니다. :partying_face: