Some great feedback here. Thanks! We’ll definitely take it under consideration.
Just to bring you up to speed because you are new here.. previously (and for many years!) all site settings (including site settings for plugins) were reachable at /admin/settings where there is a search filter and category structure. There are alot of settings in that interface which can be overwhelming for people when they are just getting started with Discourse, and the vast majority of them do not need twiddling with at first. So over the last year or so we’ve been gradually creating new config pages that bring together settings that belong together.
This process is incomplete and there are some areas that have not yet been brought into line with the new navigation structure. Plugins has a big surface area and there’s alot of work to do here, including in each plugin. Simple utility plugins like this one that we don’t offer on our self-serve hosting are not at the top of the list, but we do welcome PRs!
Looks like the discussion here around the GitHub - discourse/discourse-categories-suppressed plugin has uncovered some issues. It’s on our official plugins list on github but it’s missing some characteristics official plugins usually have:
- setting to disable/enable it, when it’s installed
- README.md file in the github repo
- plugin topic here on meta with official tag
I’m not so familiar with this plugin myself so will check it out.