# 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")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@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")

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> [@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.

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