Do your members keep mistakenly posting topics within your 'official' categories? Make the category read-only using category permissions. This lets you control whether members can create topics or post comments in a specific category. For instance, restrict your 'News and Announcements' and your 'How Tos' categories so that members can only comment on them.
How To Restrict Members From Creating Posts In A Category
- Go to Control → Platform → Community
- Select the category you want to change and click Edit.
- To restrict users from creating topics or commenting revoke their Create topic or Create comments permissions
- Hit Save, and you’re done
Note:
- The switches in control determine the visibility of the functionality in your community. By default all the functionalities are visible for your users. In order to create a topic or post a comment users must have an activated account. Users awaiting email confirmation, Users awaiting moderator approval and Unregistered / non logged in users won’t be able to post.
- Want a category in which only moderators and community managers can create new topics? Simply revoke Create topic permissions for normal members or change the category type to News.
- Create a read-only category by revoking the Create topic and Create comments permissions of normal members.