Hide / Unhide Category

If you hide a category:

• its posts are not visible in category 1

And if the user is not signed in:

• they cannot view the content of its posts
• it is hidden in the sidebar
• they cannot directly query the list of posts in the category
• they can find the posts in search, but cannot view the comments

​​ Default Hidden Categories

By default, category 8 (Adult) is hidden.

​​ Hide / Unhide

​​ Log into mongodb

mongosh mongodb://<username>:<password>@localhost:30000/metahkg

​​ List the categories

metahkg> db.category.find().pretty()

Find the id of the one you want to hide / unhide. If the object has hidden: true, it is hidden. Otherwise, it is not.

​​ Hide

WARNING: DO NOT hide category 1 , or the output might not be as expected!

metahkg> db.category.updateOne({ id: <id> }, { $set: { hidden: true } })

​​ Unhide

metahkg> db.category.updateOne({ id: <id> }, { $unset: { hidden: 1 } })