Catergory Limits

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Feature: Articles & Templates
Reported by: M78 MazAttack
Opened: 1 Apr 2026
Assigned to: katerinach

Description

I only have 8 catergories and one is the tutorial from you in my Tree and it says I have reached my catergory limit of 11. I'm just going to put this out here. I am trying to move my world over from Google Docs and this seems to be more work that it is worth, even for free.

Steps to Reproduce

If people remove Catergories and cannot create new catergories, you are not in fact allowing a person to have the number of catergories. If I am up to the section of Magic, which would come right after character creation, and can't add catergories, it is a waste of my time.

History

Comments and updates to this report

katerinach 1 Apr 2026 · 10:35 Assignee

Hey M78 MazAttack, I took a look at your world Forgotten Realms and you have over 20 categories in that word (most are indeed from the pre-generated ones that World Anvil used to provide), a lot of them under the World Encyclopedia category. Deleting the ones you're not using to under the free limit will allow you to make new ones - if not, please let me know to investigate further! Just a note that the free limits are counted between your worlds, so you will need to have a total of 15 categories max between your Forgotten Realms and Vandalor worlds.

katerinach 1 Apr 2026 · 10:35 Assignee

Assigned katerinach

M78 MazAttack 1 Apr 2026 · 11:22

Thank you, new to this and some of it feels like I am being punished for trying to learn it. That does help, though.

katerinach 1 Apr 2026 · 11:57 Assignee

I understand, World Anvil is a complex system and has a learning curve for sure - we have guides for most features you can advise when in doubt (can be found in the Learn link in the top middle menu and any ? button you see next to various features) and the categories structure that were auto-generated is an old system we no longer use to not fill a user's world unnecessarily but older worlds still have them. Feel free to also reach out on our Discord server, we have a large community who is very eager to help and answer any questions you have!

katerinach 9 Apr 2026 · 08:14 Assignee

Hey there, I am closing this report since there has been no response in more than 7 days. Please feel free to respond here if you encounter any issue regarding category limits so we can continue investigating!

katerinach 9 Apr 2026 · 08:15 Assignee

set this bug to closed

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