# User-Created Categories **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [April 10, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653 "2014-04-10T17:37:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 13 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![codekitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codekitchen/32/108606_2.png) [@codekitchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codekitchen) #### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/1 "2014-04-10T17:37:01Z")
I’d love to be able to give everybody the ability to create new categories, even if they aren’t an admin. This is for a company private internal Discourse instance, so we don’t really need to worry about spam or untrusted users mucking things up too much – but we still would prefer not to make every employee a full site admin. ---
### Author: ![evaryont](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/evaryont/32/122402_2.png) [@evaryont](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evaryont) #### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/2 "2014-04-11T00:53:09Z")
I’d also want this ability, perhaps gated to those above a certain trust level? ---
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/3 "2014-04-11T00:55:49Z")
There is no UI at the moment for adding global “abilities” to groups, we would need this first. ---
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/4 "2014-04-11T01:39:10Z")
This is really far off. If you trust your users _that_ much, make them all admins as a short term workaround. Otherwise create a topic for new categories and have people post to it when they need a new category.. watch that topic as admin, and voilà ---
### Author: ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey) #### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/5 "2014-04-11T02:41:14Z")
Maybe moderators could (optionally) be given the permission? ---
### Author: ![codekitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codekitchen/32/108606_2.png) [@codekitchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codekitchen) #### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/6 "2014-04-11T02:49:58Z")
Sure, that’s the workaround we’ve implemented for now. We can’t make them all admins, because it’d give them access to settings they really shouldn’t have even if we trust them as employees, like S3 credentials and the ability to change authentication methods. ---
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/7 "2014-04-11T02:59:42Z")
Totally open to a site setting that allows moderators to create categories, that is fine. ---
### Author: ![codekitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codekitchen/32/108606_2.png) [@codekitchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codekitchen) #### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/8 "2014-04-11T03:11:58Z")
Right on, I’ll see what I can do. ---
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [April 22, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/9 "2014-04-22T03:02:56Z")
This is now complete “moderators create categories : Site Setting” ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/2X/4/410a622e84179160c9d499d5ec5f59e18b915b05.png) ---
### Author: ![codekitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codekitchen/32/108606_2.png) [@codekitchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codekitchen) #### Post date: [April 22, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/10 "2014-04-22T14:33:52Z")
Beautiful, thank you @sam ---
### Author: ![HeroicEric](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heroiceric/32/105979_2.png) [@HeroicEric](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HeroicEric) #### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/11 "2018-05-18T18:51:33Z")
> [@sam](#): > > “allow moderators to create categories : Site Setting” It looks like this setting has moved or was removed. Is that correct? ---
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [May 21, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/12 "2018-05-21T00:03:59Z")
It is still there… keep typing… `moderators`, the screenshot was taken when we had less settings. ---
### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi) #### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/13 "2025-12-04T11:10:03Z")