# Changing "Categories" to something else

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2017年六月5日 21:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993 "2017-06-05T21:15:30Z")
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### Author: ![marc.kriezl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@marc.kriezl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marc.kriezl)
#### Post date: [2017年六月5日 21:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993/1 "2017-06-05T21:15:30Z")

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Would it be possible to change “Categories” to “Departments” across the entire application?

This would affect:

- the dropdown menu “all categories” on the front page
- The column heading “Category” on the list of topics
- The “Categories” tab on the front page
- The heading “Category” on [Categories - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/categories)
- The heading “Categories” upon clicking the hamburger
- etc

Basically, everywhere there is a depiction of “Category” or “Categories”

Thanks!

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2017年六月5日 21:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993/2 "2017-06-05T21:20:06Z")

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Navigate to admin/customize/text content and search for “categor” (not a typo: this will match both “categories” and “category”). There are a whole bunch of them,but you can change them all to whatever you want.

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### Author: ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)
#### Post date: [2017年六月6日 07:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993/3 "2017-06-06T07:18:01Z")

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Indeed I did that to change ‘category’ to ‘conference’. Also check with capital C…

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### Author: ![marc.kriezl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@marc.kriezl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marc.kriezl)
#### Post date: [2017年六月6日 07:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993/4 "2017-06-06T07:31:11Z")

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Thank you very much!

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### Author: ![marc.kriezl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@marc.kriezl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marc.kriezl)
#### Post date: [2017年六月6日 08:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993/5 "2017-06-06T08:09:34Z")

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Thanks for confirming what pfaffman said!

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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: [2019年六月15日 09:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993/6 "2019-06-15T09:41:45Z")

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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: [2022年十月23日 03:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-categories-to-something-else/63993/10 "2022-10-23T03:55:46Z")

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