{"id":995850,"date":"2015-08-13T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/community-events-how-to-set-category-defaults\/"},"modified":"2015-09-08T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T04:31:06","slug":"community-events-how-to-set-category-defaults","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/community-events-how-to-set-category-defaults\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Events &#8211; How to set Category Defaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, is it possible to set a default \u2018Event Category\u2019 for users who are adding their own events via the Community plug-in \/ add-on? <\/p>\n<p>We have hundreds of categories, and we don\u2019t want users to have to scroll down them all to try and chose the right ones. 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