Add a Staff category. Have a topic for assets in the Staff category. Move admin quick start guide to Staff category. Quick start guide is not invisible anymore.

db/fixtures/502_staff_category.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+unless Rails.env.test?
+  staff = Category.where(id: SiteSetting.staff_category_id).first
+  if staff and !staff.group_ids.include?(Group[:staff].id)
+
+    # Add permissions and a description to the Staff category.
+
+    staff.group_names = ['staff']
+    unless staff.save
+      puts staff.errors.full_messages
+      raise "Failed to set permissions on the Staff category!"
+    end
+
+    creator = PostCreator.new(Discourse.system_user,
+      raw: I18n.t('staff_category_description'),
+      title: I18n.t('category.topic_prefix', category: staff.name),
+      category: staff.name,
+      archetype: Archetype.default
+    )
+    post = creator.create
+
+    unless post && post.id
+      puts post.errors.full_messages if post
+      puts creator.errors.inspect
+      raise "Failed to create description for Staff category!"
+    end
+
+    staff.topic_id = post.topic.id
+    unless staff.save
+      puts staff.errors.full_messages
+      puts "Failed to set the Staff category description topic!"
+    end
+
+    # Reset topic count because we don't count the description topic
+    Category.exec_sql "UPDATE categories SET topic_count = 0 WHERE id = #{staff.id}"
+  end
+end

db/fixtures/999_topics.rb

@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ Post.reset_column_information
 if Topic.where('id NOT IN (SELECT topic_id from categories where topic_id is not null)').count == 0 && !Rails.env.test?
   puts "Seeding welcome topics"
 
+  staff = Category.where(id: SiteSetting.staff_category_id).first
   welcome = File.read(Rails.root + 'docs/ADMIN-QUICK-START-GUIDE.md')
-  post = PostCreator.create(Discourse.system_user, raw: welcome, title: "Discourse Admin Quick Start Guide", skip_validations: true)
-  post.topic.update_column('visible', false)
+  PostCreator.create(Discourse.system_user, raw: welcome, title: "Discourse Admin Quick Start Guide", skip_validations: true, category: staff ? staff.name : nil)
+  PostCreator.create(Discourse.system_user, raw: I18n.t('assets_topic_body'), title: "Assets for the forum design", skip_validations: true, category: staff ? staff.name : nil)
 
   welcome = File.read(Rails.root + 'docs/WELCOME-TO-DISCOURSE.md')
   post = PostCreator.create(Discourse.system_user, raw: welcome, title: "Welcome to Discourse", skip_validations: true)

db/migrate/20140227201005_add_staff_category.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+class AddStaffCategory < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def up
+    unless Rails.env.test?
+      result = Category.exec_sql "SELECT 1 FROM site_settings where name = 'staff_category_id'"
+      if result.count == 0
+        description = I18n.t('staff_category_description')
+        name = I18n.t('staff_category_name')
+        if Category.exec_sql("SELECT 1 FROM categories where name ilike '#{name}'").count == 0
+          result = execute "INSERT INTO categories
+                          (name, color, text_color, created_at, updated_at, user_id, slug, description, read_restricted)
+                   VALUES ('#{name}', '283890', 'FFFFFF', now(), now(), -1, '#{Slug.for(name)}', '#{description}', true)
+                   RETURNING id"
+          category_id = result[0]["id"].to_i
+
+          execute "INSERT INTO site_settings(name, data_type, value, created_at, updated_at)
+                   VALUES ('staff_category_id', 3, #{category_id}, now(), now())"
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  def down
+    # Do nothing
+  end
+end