@MeridianSquid71 Thanks for the question!
The #student-pilots:forum-guide , #student-pilots:new-pilot-help-guides and #student-pilots:advanced-pilot-help-guides categories are not available for general posting, for obvious reasons.
However, that is not to say that forum users are excluded from posting there.
As I understand it, the ability to create posts in that area of the forums is restricted to those who have been granted the “Local Guides” badge. Only Community Managers (CM) can grant that badge.
However, moderators can review potential guides and move them to the relevant guide section, if deemed appropriate. In such an eventuality the CM team would also be alerted that a new guide had been written and they would evaluate the granting of the “Local Guides” badge.
If you wish to publish such a guide then please post it in the most relevant section of the forums and send a private message to @moderators asking them to consider the post to be transferred to the guide section. (As an alternative you could also send the potential guide by PM to the moderators if you didn’t want it published in advance on the forums.)
I hope this all makes sense.