Back to Administration Panels. Next to the Manage Categories text at the top of this panel is an add new link to jump to the bottom of this panel to begin adding new Categories. To the right is a search box where you can enter a word, or series of words, and click the "Search Tags" button to search and display all the Categories meeting your search words. This table lists all of your categories by row.
Categories are displayed hierarchically and alphabetically; subcategories are displayed beneath their parents and are prefaced by long dashes. These dashed are not part of a category's name; they are there only to show hierarchy. At the top of the table is the Delete button. Any Category that has the checkbox set will be deleted when the Delete button is clicked. Deleting a category does not delete the posts in that category. When the Categories are deleted, a splash message will appear at the top of the screen saying "Categories deleted.
I am a super newbie blogger, and I am really struggling with ensuring that everything aligns. I will be visiting this blog more frequently.
Not immediately as it automatically updated it. But once I realised the problem, I deleted the category from the menu, then added it in anew, but no change.
Do I need to set up redirects on categories as I delete them? I know that I need to on posts and I do it using the redirect tool. But do I have to do that on categories, or am I safe to just delete them?
You are safe to delete and rearrange them as you please unless your site relied upon categories as you core taxonmy, the key nelavigation funnels. Then redirects would help. Only an add-button. How can I edit the categories? Thank you so much for your time! Great article! Or will they keep their previous cateogires and not be moved there? Only posts with no other category end up in the default category, which is uncategorized unless changed.
Good Lord. Thank god for this post. Thanks a bunch! Thanks so much! I wanted to rename a category and your site popped up on a Google search.
Simple and accurate instructions. I would like my posts to have multiple categories, so far I can add multiple ones but when going to my website I can only see the primary category and not the other ones. Is it possible, because since we can add multiple ones I assume you can see them.
Great question. Categories are displayed by what is called a template tag in the WordPress Theme. Change Themes. For example, switch to the Theme. See the categories listed in different places? If you want to see categories on the post, it is dependent upon the inclusion of the template tag for categories in the side that generates the post. If you wish to see your categories in a menu, edit or create a custom memu and place it, like under the header.
Edit your sidebar to include categories and ensure hierarchy is checkmarked. That will display them in a list in the sidebar. So the answer is complicated. Experiment with different free Themes to see the changes.
If you paid for a Theme, ask their support team for help on this. Hi Lorelle, thank you so so much for your quick reply and advise. I have added to my side bar. I have just found out that my theme does not support it but having it somewhere else it helps. Hi, I came across your wonderful blog while researching wp categories. In other words, does deleting a category cause the other ones to be reranked?
Since my home page layout relies a lot on category IDs to display articles in modules and the like, I think I need to know this before deleting a category. Thanks in advance! However, if you run a database cleaner, it could. IDs tend to stay as the unique identifier. Bookmark the […]. Keep your categories organized. Click here to read a complete article on editing categories.
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Notify me of new posts via email. Email Address:. Subscribe by Email. Lorelle on WordPress utorials about WordPress, blogging, social media, and having your say on the web. Blogrolls Gone in WordPress. How to Save Your Links. The first one is done on-the-fly through the Post Panel : In the sidebar menu of the Post Panel , look for Categories.
Enter the name of the category in the form. If appropriate, select the Parent Category for this Category. Click Add New Category. On the left side of the panel is Add New Category. Fill in the category name in the form. If appropriate, select a Parent category from the drop down menu. Enter a description for the category in the form.
The new category will now appear in the Category list on the Post Panel. A category will not appear in your category navigation unless there is a published post in it.
Category names should be keyword specific not made-up or fun names. They are important navigation links so call them what they represent. Category names are generally one to four words. Posts can be in multiple categories. Categories can have subcategories. Category descriptions will appear on WordPress Themes using the category description template tag in the category template file of the Theme. Categories have their own feeds. Pages do not have categories, only posts.
Not sure why, but you can easily delete these from the Comment panels as they are duplicate trackbacks. What You Need to Know on Adding, Removing, and Changing Categories There are a few issues and complications that may come with adding a new category to your WordPress site that you will need to know. To change the default category on WordPress and self-hosted versions of WordPress: Create a new category to be your new default, if you have not done so already.
New posts published without selecting a category will be set in this new default category. Using the Bulk Edit feature of WordPress, select all the posts in the Uncategorized category, choose Bulk Edit Apply , and add the new default category to all the selected posts. If you have more than one page of posts in that category, you may have to repeat this for each page of posts in the Post Panel until all are in Uncategorized and the new default category. Accept any warnings. All posts formerly in the Uncategorized category will have that category removed, leaving them in the new default category.
Find the category name you wish to change and click Edit. Change the category name. Add or change the category description. Click Update. If you do not with to have the posts moved into the default category, you have some options. Go to the Posts management panel. Filter the posts by the specific category of posts you wish to delete and apply the filter. Triple check that these are the posts you wish to delete. Click Apply to move all the selected posts to the Trash. Select Categories and Tags Converter.
Choose Categories to Tags or Tags to Categories. Find the category or tag you wish to convert and click the check mark next to it. Like this: Like Loading This entry was written by Lorelle VanFossen and posted on September 13, at pm and filed under blogging tips , WordPress , WordPress News , WordPress Tips , Writing with tags categories , categories in wordpress , change categories , changing categories , delete category , edit categories , how to use wordpress , move categories , move category , renaming category , tags , wordpress , wordpress categories , wordpress help , WordPress News , wordpress tags , WordPress Tips , wordpress tutorials , WordPressDotCom.
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Sue J. You can also delete categories from the Posts » Categories screen. One common way to do this is by placing a list of your categories in your sidebar. Categories can be displayed in the sidebar using a categories widget. Go to Appearance » Widgets and drag and drop the categories widget in a sidebar. All your categories will be displayed in the sidebar, except those which do not have posts. The category widget allows you to display your categories as a dropdown menu or a list.
You can also choose if you want to display the number of posts in each category. If you select the Show hierarchy option, your child categories will be indicated by special styling, which is usually an indent before the child category name.
The appearance will depend on your theme. To do that go to Appearance » Menus. Categories and tags are both taxonomies that are included by default in WordPress. Categories in WordPress cover broader sections of your website, while tags help to identify all the posts you have created that have been tagged with a specific word.
Think of categories like a table of contents in the front of a book. They separate the content on your website into general topics. Whereas tags are like the index in the back of a book, because they assign words that describe very specific details of your posts. Categories help visitors understand what your website is about so they can navigate to the content they are looking for faster. They can be hierarchical if you use child categories.
We wrote a full-length post defining the best uses of categories and tags that will help you better understand their uses, and the difference between the two.
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