# Setting initial directory

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-initial-directory/65606
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 4, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-initial-directory/65606 "2017-07-04T17:23:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Hossein\_Amerkashi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hossein_amerkashi/32/89092_2.png) [@Hossein\_Amerkashi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hossein_Amerkashi)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-initial-directory/65606/1 "2017-07-04T17:23:56Z")

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Hello,

How would we setup discourse so that when discourse community is opened, it would default to **categories** section like below:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories)

Thanks

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-initial-directory/65606/2 "2017-07-04T17:29:44Z")

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Put Categories first in this setting

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/1/015faa93fc99bc71fca527af7e5c4e313c1da63f.png)

And select Categories & Latest Topics in this one

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/f/7ffffdb02c213c189881b6fef99b6430ce96f7a7.png)

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### Author: ![Hossein\_Amerkashi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hossein_amerkashi/32/89092_2.png) [@Hossein\_Amerkashi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hossein_Amerkashi)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-initial-directory/65606/3 "2017-07-04T17:38:23Z")

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Amazing. Worked like a charm.

THANKS

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 8:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-initial-directory/65606/4 "2017-07-05T08:27:47Z")

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