# Merge one or more posts into one

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-one-or-more-posts-into-one/19596
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 3, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-one-or-more-posts-into-one/19596 "2014-09-03T20:35:42Z")
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### Author: ![vulkanino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vulkanino/32/119654_2.png) [@vulkanino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vulkanino)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-one-or-more-posts-into-one/19596/1 "2014-09-03T20:35:42Z")

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In one of my topics I have the need to merge two (or more) posts in one.

To do that now I’d have to:

- Enter in one post edit mode
- Select all, copy
- Delete post (loosing the likes and replies)
- Enter in the other post’s edit mode
- Reach for the bottom, paste

It would be nice to be able to select one or more posts and click on wrech, “merge”. Maybe I just have the level n00b and can’t do it?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-one-or-more-posts-into-one/19596/2 "2014-09-04T02:42:34Z")

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This is covered in a spec topic already.

> [@Add a "merge multiple responses" admin post selection action](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-merge-multiple-responses-admin-post-selection-action/14904/1):
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> For users that insist on posting multiple sequential replies, especially short ones, it would be nice to have a “merge posts” option appear when you use the admin wrench to begin selecting posts in a topic, and then select a few posts by the same user in sequence: This does make it somewhat ambiguous what happens when 3 different replies “directed” at 3 different users are combined. Not sure exactly how to handle that, but for now I would just remove any explicit replies as part of t…

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-one-or-more-posts-into-one/19596/3 "2014-09-04T02:43:42Z")

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