# For hosted sites, newly added General category. How can one change all topics in one category to General category?

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**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/for-hosted-sites-newly-added-general-category-how-can-one-change-all-topics-in-one-category-to-general-category/237563 "2022-08-30T09:18:08Z")\
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> [@EricGT](#):
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> Hopefully you don’t have thousands.

If you do, you’ll want this to be done at the console.

Something like

```
  Topic.where("category.id=null").update_all(category=123)

```

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