This is like a Feature - Dev topic, not sure which one it should be in. Is there a way to modify site settings in a plugin? I’m 99% sure there isn’t, but I’d just like to confirm that. If there isn’t, can I put forward a suggestion to not make it immutable? Or perhaps, having some API or a way to…

Although that is perfectly possible from a technical point of view, I think the approach would be over complicated, especially since “at the start” is hard to define/detect, and you want to avoid that the plugin keeps adding B back after the site admin removed it. Also, when a new private category i…

Static pages sync: Allowing specific private categories to be synced

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) November 29, 2025, 2:42am 13

Completely spot-on! I’ve made a basic structure of that here.

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Static pages sync: Allowing specific private categories to be synced

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