Changing "Categories" to something else

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The discussion revolves around changing the term “Categories” to something else in a Discourse application. marc.kriezl requests to change it to “Departments” across the application, listing several areas where the term appears. pfaffman provides a solution by navigating to admin/customize/text content and searching for “categor” to update the terms. hellekin confirms this approach, mentioning they used it to change “category” to “conference” and advises checking for capitalized instances as well.

1

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
  • The heading “Categories” upon clicking the hamburger
  • etc

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

Thanks!

2

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.

3

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

4

Thank you very much!

5

Thanks for confirming what pfaffman said!