We are paid members of Discourse. I accidentally deleted a category, and since this is our first time using the platform, we didn’t make a backup beforehand. Is there any way to restore that category? Alternatively, if I can create a new category with the same URL slug as the original one, that woul…

[Bild] yachun_li: We are paid members of Discourse You can email team@discourse.org in this case (though the community is also good to help), but I think they usually don’t work on weekends. You can’t delete a category if you don’t delete the topics in it beforehand. Either you deleted an e…

So you just deleted an empty one? Just make a new one with the same name

The new one will have a new category id, which is the only part of the url that matters. It week be easier to uodate whatever is writing to discourse.

Dringende Hilfe benötigt! Ich habe versehentlich den Abschnitt „Feature Request“ gelöscht

Unterstützung

Kartoon 23. August 2025 um 23:17 7

Sie haben also gerade einen leeren gelöscht? Erstellen Sie einfach einen neuen mit demselben Namen

Thema		Antworten	Aufrufe
Announcements posts are deleted... won't undelete Support	3	466	29. Juni 2023
I can't delete a category or topic description Support	27	2181	11. September 2018
Undelete A Category? (Or the "about this category" topic that was under it) Support	3	557	20. März 2021
Confused using categories Support	7	981	21. Oktober 2017
Can't undelete category description posts created by deleted user Bug	7	899	23. Dezember 2020

Dringende Hilfe benötigt! Ich habe versehentlich den Abschnitt „Feature Request“ gelöscht

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