Is it possible to join topics? Due to some errors I have duplicate topics. I’d like to keep the urls but redirect to a common topic.

Yes. In the topic, hit the wrench icon. Select the posts you want to merge, then move them to an existing topic. It will split them off and leave a link in the original thread. If you move them all, it will automatically close the topic.

@Heather_Dudley , thank you for the hint. I tried to join two topics using this method and the comments have been moved. But the empty topic remains (as closed). I’d like to get rid of it (except for the redirection, so I’d like to keep the url).

You can keep it closed and you can also archive and/or unlisted it, depending on what you want to do. [image] Understanding closed, unlisted, and archived topics Site Management bookmark This guide explains the differences between Closed, Unlisted, and Archiv…

thank you @dax . I see that there are different possibilities to address my question. I can now prevent the duplicate topic from being listed. That’s what I need. But completely removing the duplicate only keeping the url as a redirect to the other topic doesn’t seem possible as far as I see. Is that…

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Thank you for the comparison @Remah ! For my use case one remaining bit is the redirection. I found that that may be possible using permalinks. Someone else asked a similar question: Redirect Article- possible? It seems that if I move the content of one topic to the other delete one topic create…

Bear in mind that permalink redirection only works with incoming links from other sites. Internal links will just break.

I have an aversion to merging topics because of the impact on sequencing of posts. So I’ve never actually done it. FYI, I imagine that merging categories could also benefit from a permalink. Although I know that renaming a category creates an automatic redirect .

Thank you @Remah for pointing to that topic. The term “merge” didn’t come to my mind otherwise I would have found it in the beginning. I could only think of “join”.

it will also be nice to directly merge 2 topics together. instead of manually merging the individual posts. is this possible?

Is it possible to join/merge topics?

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dax (Daniela) November 4, 2019, 11:19am 4

You can keep it closed and you can also archive and/or unlisted it, depending on what you want to do.

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Is it possible to join/merge topics?

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