Hey, thought as it's a separate issue I'd make a separate thread.

Is it possible to restrict posting in categories to only Admins/Moderators?

I want a news/updates/info section where users can reply to the posts but cannot start new threads in that category.

@Macreus
No, forums is for users, not for admins.
You could achieve that by modifying plugin files and putting such restrictions there.

Yes but like most forums, i.e PHPBB, VBulletin etc, you quite often will have certain categories that only moderators/admins can post in for news/updates for example, where you want users to be able to reply in the threads that have been posted by admins but to be blocked from starting new threads within that category.

Quite happy to tinker with the code, are you able to point me in the right direction in regards to that?

@Macreus
This plugin was created to allow community on classifieds website to have forums and owners to be able to talk to community.
But plugin is not replacement for standard forum scripts.

I see, that's a shame, would be great to be able to lock a Category.