Title: Lock Categories?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Lock Categories?

 *  [muttonchopdavo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muttonchopdavo/)
 * (@muttonchopdavo)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lock-categories/)
 * Is it possible to only allow users to post content of a certain category.
 * Either through shortcode e.g. [fep_submission_form, cat=5]
 * Or, in settings.
 * In the long run, I have pages that display specific categories and I don’t want
   users to be able to create e.g. ‘Website News’ posts.
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