# Simplified category setup

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/simplified-category-setup/394971
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [February 3, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/simplified-category-setup/394971 "2026-02-03T15:11:01Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/simplified-category-setup/394971/15 "2026-02-04T17:24:47Z")

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> [@jordanjay29](#):
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> Is this color picker going to be added to Discourse for plugin/component devs to make use of as well?

It’s available for use within [formkit forms](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-toolkit-to-render-forms/326439)… here’s where it’s used in category creation:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/643ab82df590bf5d5361f6c75b74ab46432df403/frontend/discourse/admin/components/upsert-category/general.gjs#L381>

…but it hasn’t been made available for use outside of forms.

We also have a couple separate admin components, `ColorInput` and `ColorPicker`, which we should consider unifying at some point as well.

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