# Naam van de plugin Templates gewijzigd in ‘Discourse Reply Templates’ voor meer duidelijkheid
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** templates
**Created:** [24 oktober 2022 om 21:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101 "2022-10-24T21:54:15Z")
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### Author:  [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [24 oktober 2022 om 21:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/1 "2022-10-24T21:54:15Z")
Will this interact at all with the “Topic Template” feature in categories? I suppose not, but I’m finding the naming confusing…
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [2 november 2022 om 05:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/2 "2022-11-02T05:38:35Z")
You’re correct, they’re completely seperate things.
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### Author:  [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [2 november 2022 om 13:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/3 "2022-11-02T13:58:24Z")
It’s probably not a big deal, but I’d suggest renaming this to **Discourse Reply Templates** — not just because of that possible confusion, but to make it clear exactly _what_ is being templated. (A completely new user might think that it has something to do with themes or layout.)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [21 november 2022 om 22:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/4 "2022-11-21T22:00:45Z")
Tricky, this is also used for OP (first post) templates. And these are not replies.
Discourse Post Templates may work, but we also allow (or will allow) you to use the templates elsewhere (in moderation scenarios, potentially for ban messages and so on..)
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### Author:  [@saquetim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/saquetim)
#### Post date: [21 november 2022 om 22:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/5 "2022-11-21T22:21:59Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> but we also allow (or will allow) you to use the templates elsewhere (in moderation scenarios, potentially for ban messages and so on…)
IMO, `reply-templates` or `post-templates` wouldn’t work very well because Templates can be used in other scenarios. In fact we already allow using it in any textarea in Discourse if the user uses the shortcut key to call the Insert Template modal.
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### Author:  [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [22 november 2022 om 19:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/6 "2022-11-22T19:21:43Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Tricky, this is also used for OP (first post) templates
Oh, wait — maybe I totally misunderstood. So it _can_ replace the category templates? I’ll have to go play with it some more…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [23 november 2022 om 01:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/7 "2022-11-23T01:12:21Z")
> [@mattdm](#):
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> So it _can_ replace the category templates?
Not really, that is a different feature altogether. Category templates are a “starting point” for all new discussions in a category. Templates are canned text anyone can insert in any textarea in Discourse but they need to take explicit actions to make it so.
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### Author:  [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [26 november 2022 om 01:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/8 "2022-11-26T01:02:38Z")
Perhaps they could be combined? The category setting could, instead of carrying a template directly, have a reference to one of these new things.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [10 december 2022 om 02:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rename-templates-plugin-to-discourse-reply-templates-to-be-more-descriptive/245101/9 "2022-12-10T02:57:48Z")
That does make logical sense! Using the same term to denote different things in different places is the road to madness.
I could see them being combined nicely one day (when it moves to core perhaps?)