diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/store.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/store.js.es6
index 61ce9f581c8..f0608b86b0c 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/store.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/models/store.js.es6
@@ -111,22 +111,32 @@ export default Ember.Object.extend({
     return this.container.lookup('adapter:' + type) || this.container.lookup('adapter:rest');
   },
 
+  _lookupSubType(subType, id, root) {
+
+    // cheat: we know we already have categories in memory
+    if (subType === 'category') {
+      return Discourse.Category.findById(id);
+    }
+
+    const collection = root[this.pluralize(subType)];
+    if (collection) {
+      const found = collection.findProperty('id', id);
+      if (found) {
+        return this._hydrate(subType, found, root);
+      }
+    }
+  },
+
   _hydrateEmbedded(obj, root) {
     const self = this;
     Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(k) {
       const m = /(.+)\_id$/.exec(k);
       if (m) {
         const subType = m[1];
-        const collection = root[self.pluralize(subType)];
-        if (collection) {
-          const found = collection.findProperty('id', obj[k]);
-          if (found) {
-            const hydrated = self._hydrate(subType, found, root);
-            if (hydrated) {
-              obj[subType] = hydrated;
-              delete obj[k];
-            }
-          }
+        const hydrated = self._lookupSubType(subType, obj[k], root);
+        if (hydrated) {
+          obj[subType] = hydrated;
+          delete obj[k];
         }
       }
     });
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/queued-posts.hbs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/queued-posts.hbs
index e2d096514c2..60fa6dbdd09 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/queued-posts.hbs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/queued-posts.hbs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
             {{else}}
               {{post.post_options.title}}
             {{/if}}
+            {{category-badge post.category}}
           </span>
 
           {{{cook-text post.raw}}}
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/queued-posts.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/queued-posts.scss
index 49cdb433de1..19f1bc07371 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/queued-posts.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/queued-posts.scss
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
     .post-title {
       color: darken(scale-color-diff(), 50%);
       font-weight: bold;
+
+      .badge-wrapper {
+        margin-left: 1em;
+      }
     }
 
     border-bottom: 1px solid darken(scale-color-diff(), 10%);
diff --git a/app/models/user_history.rb b/app/models/user_history.rb
index 3fe017d69a1..94f48adecdc 100644
--- a/app/models/user_history.rb
+++ b/app/models/user_history.rb
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ class UserHistory < ActiveRecord::Base
                           :change_username,
                           :custom,
                           :custom_staff,
-                          :anonymize_user)
+                          :anonymize_user,
+                          :reviewed_post)
   end
 
   # Staff actions is a subset of all actions, used to audit actions taken by staff users.
@@ -59,7 +60,8 @@ class UserHistory < ActiveRecord::Base
                         :roll_up,
                         :change_username,
                         :custom_staff,
-                        :anonymize_user]
+                        :anonymize_user,
+                        :reviewed_post]
   end
 
   def self.staff_action_ids
diff --git a/app/serializers/queued_post_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/queued_post_serializer.rb
index 8e2637bce7a..33b0bccf909 100644
--- a/app/serializers/queued_post_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/queued_post_serializer.rb
@@ -9,9 +9,19 @@ class QueuedPostSerializer < ApplicationSerializer
              :rejected_by_id,
              :raw,
              :post_options,
-             :created_at
+             :created_at,
+             :category_id
 
   has_one :user, serializer: BasicUserSerializer, embed: :object
   has_one :topic, serializer: BasicTopicSerializer
 
+  def category_id
+    cat_id = object.topic.try(:category_id) || object.post_options['category']
+    cat_id.to_i if cat_id
+  end
+
+  def include_category_id?
+    category_id.present?
+  end
+
 end
diff --git a/spec/models/queued_post_spec.rb b/spec/models/queued_post_spec.rb
index cd8d169d871..c433b5c4c16 100644
--- a/spec/models/queued_post_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/queued_post_spec.rb
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ describe QueuedPost do
         expect(topic.category).to eq(category)
       end
 
-      it "doesn't create the post and topic" do
+      it "rejecting doesn't create the post and topic" do
         topic_count, post_count = Topic.count, Post.count
 
         qp.reject!(admin)