# How to edit an existing category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042 "2021-07-05T10:32:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@sharewoodsDavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sharewoodsDavid)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/1 "2021-07-05T10:32:31Z")
Hello,
I have searched every for an answer. For the life of me, I can’t find where to go to edit an existing category.
I have all permissions on my discourse. I can navigate to “Categories” but once there I can’t find any Edit options. Is this possible ?
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/2 "2021-07-05T10:42:35Z")
Hello there 👋
If you want to edit an existing category head over to the category you want to edit. You should then be able to see a wrench 🔧 icon. This will take you to the category settings. In my example I would be editing the ‘Meta’ category.
Hope this helps 😉
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### Author:  [@sharewoodsDavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sharewoodsDavid)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/3 "2021-07-05T10:56:03Z")
Hello,
Thanks for the quick reply. Either there was a UI bug or I was missing something.
I think the bug was that even if I was on the category I couldn’t access the wrench icon without it having a drop-down suggesting “New Topic”.
However, I was able to access the parent category settings and when I returned on the sub-category it displayed the wrench icon and brought me to settings.
Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/4 "2021-07-05T11:01:17Z")
Glad you sorted it. Out of curiosity is your site on the latest version of Discourse? Just asking because there was this bug around a week ago.
> [@Can't edit categories with full permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-edit-categories-with-full-permissions/195183/5):
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> This is a recent regression and will be fixed by [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/13540](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/13540) Thank you for reporting +1
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### Author:  [@sharewoodsDavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sharewoodsDavid)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/5 "2021-07-05T11:08:06Z")
I guess that could be the bug that I had.
This is my current version:
2.8.0.beta2
[c3394ed9bb]
I’m relatively new to discourse. In the admin/upgrade it says that discourse was updated 3 hours ago so I guess it was fixed at that moment.
Are updates automatic ?
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/6 "2021-07-05T11:10:18Z")
Upgrades cannot be automated as far as I am aware. You have to manually go to `your-site-name/admin/upgrade`
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### Author:  [@sharewoodsDavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sharewoodsDavid)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/7 "2021-07-05T11:11:40Z")
very well thanks for the feedback!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-an-existing-category/196042/8 "2021-08-04T11:12:08Z")
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