# Change sidebar community name

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-sidebar-community-name/260343
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [April 3, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-sidebar-community-name/260343 "2023-04-03T12:47:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Toby\_Richards](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/toby_richards/32/294369_2.png) [@Toby\_Richards](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Toby_Richards)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-sidebar-community-name/260343/1 "2023-04-03T12:47:36Z")

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Hey guys, I would love to ask if it is possible to change the name “community” to something else in the left bar? And how? Thanks in advance

 ![Screenshot_2023-04-03-14-39-04-109-edit_com.android.chrome](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/3/3/d337e639bb83c09db77295aa021fd2ad56109c4a.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-sidebar-community-name/260343/2 "2023-04-03T15:56:13Z")

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Welcome Toby!

You can change pretty much any text in Discourse following this guide:

> [@Customize text in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-any-text-in-discourse/36092):
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> bookmark This is a guide for customizing text in Discourse via the admin interface, enabling changes to various UI elements. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator In Discourse, you can customize all of the text via the admin interface. This can be useful for tailoring the user experience to better fit the particular tone or branding of your community. Summary This guide will cover: Accessing the text customization interface Editing text strings Identifying translatio…

The text identifier you’ll be looking for is `js.sidebar.sections.community.header_link_text` 🙂

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/f/9/5f9c35a07a4ab18cc00a27d1a8f396b40e99cd12.png)

You may also be interested in reading this discussion:

> [@Maybe just remove the "Community" header in the sidebar? (A plea!)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maybe-just-remove-the-community-header-in-the-sidebar-a-plea/252854):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Try out the new sidebar and notification menus!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821/137): This is still troubling me. I know it’s hard to come up with a good catch-all title, but using “community” feels a bit like “eh, that word is already basically meaningless due to overuse and misuse, so it’ll do”. Which is actually kind of distressing to me. I know I can change it on my own sites, but it’s going to cause me pain everywhere else in the world I encounter it. slight_smile I think, though, with the c…

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-sidebar-community-name/260343/3 "2023-05-03T15:56:53Z")

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