{"id":1261365,"date":"2017-03-29T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/restrict-categories\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T06:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:21:56","slug":"restrict-categories","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/restrict-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrict Categories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the same issue as described <a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/restricting-categories-on-add-event\/\">here<\/a>. I want users to be able to choose categories, but I also want an admin-only category that users cannot choose, so that these events can be shown in a &#8220;Staff Recommendations&#8221; sidebar. <\/p>\n<p>Can you advise how to do this? Is the code from the previous post still good or is there a better way to do this? <\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Kim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1261365","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Restrict Categories? -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/restrict-categories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Restrict Categories? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have the same issue as described here. 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