# Unable to save category settings made by plugins

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-save-category-settings-made-by-plugins/400699
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** events, restricted-replies
**Created:** [April 15, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-save-category-settings-made-by-plugins/400699 "2026-04-15T14:12:23Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-save-category-settings-made-by-plugins/400699/3 "2026-04-16T06:03:24Z")

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Thank you for that explanation, Kris.

Where I am usually pretty relaxed when I need to update plugins because of core changes, and happy with the way developers are guided, I think the Discourse team really dropped the ball here.

- There was no announcement (at least, I cannot find it, and @moin hasn’t pointed it out to me (yet) 😉 )
- There was no attempt to mitigate this with some blanket code in core
- There isn’t even a browser development console warning

Things just stopped working.

A quick scan, probably not even complete, shows this has broken AT LEAST the following plugins:

- Discourse
  - calendar ✅ ← official Discourse plugin
  - restricted replies ✅ ← official Discourse plugin

- (members of) Pavilion
  - category lockdown
  - custom wizard
  - locations
  - chatbot

- Communiteq
  - private replies
  - private topics
  - category restrictor
  - always anonymous
  - at least 10 private plugins

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