# Setting up a 'default' category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [24 Febbraio 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633 "2015-02-24T22:04:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [24 Febbraio 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-default-category/25633/1 "2015-02-24T22:04:26Z")

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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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