# Move all topics from 1 category to other and tagging
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 4, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069 "2016-10-04T13:29:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@junaid\_pk14](https://meta.discourse.org/u/junaid_pk14)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/1 "2016-10-04T13:29:32Z")
Hello,
We want to move all articles from 1 category to the other, Our categories article count range is from 10 to 34,000. We tried the way mentioned here [https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-topics-to-new-category/21313](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-topics-to-new-category/21313) and it works well for few topics. Is there any other tool that help us to achieve this?
I checked myself in rails code and found a way to achieve this manually using rails console by following this piece of code
operator = TopicsBulkAction.new(current\_user, topic\_ids, operation, group: operation[:group])
changed\_topic\_ids = operator.perform!
Regards,
Junaid
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/2 "2016-10-04T14:42:08Z")
If you want to move all of the topics to another category, why not just rename the category?
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### Author:  [@junaid\_pk14](https://meta.discourse.org/u/junaid_pk14)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/3 "2016-10-04T15:00:49Z")
Yes this would work well in some case but if we have 2 categories and each have 1000 topic and we want to merge them then this would not work. Thanks for good idea.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/4 "2016-10-06T11:43:54Z")
I have had to make some large moves in the past to remove unpopular categories. The only thing to keep me sane is relying on a keyboard macro tool to handle some of the repetition of selecting the topics (x tabs and space). I use
[https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/](https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/)
Ultimately, would be nice to have a bulk move tool in Discourse, but understandably not a priority since it is not something used that often
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/5 "2019-03-14T13:03:12Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/6 "2019-03-14T19:24:57Z")
If you are changing the category of many thousands of topics, you will probably want to do that at the command line on the server.
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### Author:  [@thaidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thaidb)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/7 "2019-05-07T09:38:39Z")
How do we can move all topics of a category to a tag?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/8 "2019-05-07T13:07:35Z")
I think there are some examples here somewhere. If you don’t get a response soon enough and have a budget, let me know.
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### Author:  [@thaidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thaidb)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/9 "2019-05-08T02:02:59Z")
i want to all of topics category classify by tag and remove category 🙂
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-all-topics-from-1-category-to-other-and-tagging/51069/11 "2022-09-05T07:58:30Z")