diff --git a/public/templates/category.tpl b/public/templates/category.tpl
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+<button id="new_post" class="btn btn-primary btn-large">New Topic</button>
+<ul class="topic-container">
+<!-- BEGIN topics -->
+<a href="../../topic/{topics.slug}"><li class="topic-row">
+	<h4>{topics.title}</h4>
+	<p>Posted {topics.relativeTime} ago by <span class="username">{topics.username}</span>. {topics.post_count} posts.</p>
+</li></a>
+<!-- END topics -->
+</ul>
+<script type="text/javascript">
+var new_post = document.getElementById('new_post');
+new_post.onclick = function() {
+	app.open_post_window('topic', {category_id});
+}
+</script>
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diff --git a/src/categories.js b/src/categories.js
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+var	RDB = require('./redis.js'),
+	posts = require('./posts.js'),
+	utils = require('./utils.js'),
+	user = require('./user.js');
+
+(function(Categories) {
+
+
+	// An admin-only function. Seeing how we have no control panel yet ima leave this right here. sit pretty, you
+	Categories.create = function(data, callback) {
+		RDB.incr('global:next_category_id', function(cid) {
+			var slug = cid + '/' + utils.slugify(data.name);
+			RDB.rpush('categories:cid', cid);
+
+			// Topic Info
+			RDB.set('cid:' + cid + ':name', data.name);
+			RDB.set('cid:' + cid + ':description', data.description);
+			RDB.set('cid:' + cid + ':slug', slug);
+		
+			RDB.set('category:slug:' + slug + ':cid', cid);
+
+			if (callback) callback({'status': 1});
+		});
+	};
+
+
+
+	Categories.get = function(callback) {
+		RDB.lrange('categories:cid', 0, -1, function(cids) {
+			var name = [],
+				description = [],
+				slug = [];
+
+			for (var i=0, ii=cids.length; i<ii; i++) {
+				name.push('cid:' + cids[i] + ':name');
+				description.push('cid:' + cids[i] + ':description');
+				slug.push('cid:' + cids[i] + ':slug');
+			}
+
+			if (cids.length > 0) {
+				RDB.multi()
+					.mget(name)
+					.mget(description)
+					.mget(slug)
+					.exec(function(err, replies) {
+						name = replies[0];
+						description = replies[1];
+						slug = replies[2];
+						
+						var categories = [];
+						for (var i=0, ii=cids.length; i<ii; i++) {
+							categories.push({
+								'name' : name[i],
+								'cid' : cids[i],
+								'slug' : slug[i],
+								'description' : description[i],
+								/*'topics' : [0,1], later
+								'latest_post' : {
+									'uid' : 1,
+									'pid' : 1,
+									timestamp and shit
+								}*/
+							});
+						}
+
+						callback({'categories': categories});
+					});
+			} else callback({'categories' : []});
+		});
+	}
+
+}(exports));
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