# Setting up a 'default' category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 24, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633 "2015-02-24T22:04:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@pitosalas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pitosalas)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/1 "2015-02-24T22:04:26Z")
If user doesn’t understand the idea of categories, and in our site, there’s one category (called “teaching and learning”) that will contain the vast majority of posts, then how do I make “teaching and learning” appear in the category drop down initially? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/2 "2015-02-24T22:30:22Z")
You can not easily control the order there, best you can do is disable uncategorized from site settings
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### Author:  [@pitosalas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pitosalas)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/3 "2015-02-24T22:44:07Z")
Thanks. Are they alphabetized in UI. I could artificially name my default category to something that sorts first?
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### Author:  [@pitosalas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pitosalas)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/4 "2015-02-24T22:44:58Z")
Or, I could rename “uncategorized” ?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/5 "2015-02-24T22:56:38Z")
The ordering of categories is a long and contentious topic, see: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-ordering-broken-in-places/17025](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-ordering-broken-in-places/17025) for some more context.
We display categories in a list in 4 spots but not all of them will respect fixed category positions
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/6 "2015-02-25T00:57:12Z")
> [@pitosalas](#):
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> that will contain the vast majority of posts, then how do I make “teaching and learning” appear in the category drop down initially?
If it does contain the majority of posts, that will happen automatically.
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### Author:  [@Idan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Idan)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/7 "2016-06-25T12:53:43Z")
Is there an option to rename the category “uncategorized”?
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/8 "2016-06-26T01:10:06Z")
Yes, you can rename the uncategorized category. [https://bbs.boingboing.net/](https://bbs.boingboing.net/) did that.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/9 "2016-07-01T16:34:51Z")
Continued here:
> [@Default category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-category/34481):
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> This has been asked a few times before, but is it possible to set it so that new topics actually default to a certain category? I’ve disabled Uncategorized posts, but the user still has to manually select a category and it would be nice to pre-fill that for them.