# Changing the names of things in Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-names-of-things-in-discourse/134526
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [27 בנובמבר,‏ 2019,‏ 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-names-of-things-in-discourse/134526 "2019-11-27T10:52:42Z")
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### Author: ![Nikki\_Locke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nikki_locke/32/146184_2.png) [@Nikki\_Locke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nikki_Locke)
#### Post date: [27 בנובמבר,‏ 2019,‏ 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-names-of-things-in-discourse/134526/1 "2019-11-27T10:52:42Z")

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We have an own-hosted Discourse which we wish to roll out to 10,000 or more users in an organisation which is organised into groups. We use the word group a lot - everyone is in one or more groups.

The use of the word Group for security groups in Discourse is confusing everyone (and it makes writing the documentation we will present to the users very hard, as we have to convey the difference).

Is there a reasonably easy way to change Discourse to use a different work for Group in the UI (e.g. “Security Group”)? It would be nice to change the word “subcategory” into “forum” as well.

We don’t currently compile our own version of Discourse, we use a standard docker install, but I guess we could change that if necessary.

I’m imagining it would be really hard, involve forking Discourse and continually working to keep the form up to date with new releases, but I thought I would ask in case it is surprisingly easy!

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [27 בנובמבר,‏ 2019,‏ 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-names-of-things-in-discourse/134526/2 "2019-11-27T11:03:21Z")

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You can do all of this in the admin User Interface. Just search for “Group” and “Category” in the customize text section:

> [@Customize text in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-all-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…

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### Author: ![Nikki\_Locke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nikki_locke/32/146184_2.png) [@Nikki\_Locke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nikki_Locke)
#### Post date: [4 בדצמבר,‏ 2019,‏ 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-names-of-things-in-discourse/134526/3 "2019-12-04T11:25:31Z")

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Wow. that’s brilliant. Only one teensy problemette - if you search for “Group” or “Category” you get “There are more than 50 results. Please refine your search.”