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How do I change the category of a WordPress post?
Assigning Posts to Categories
- Go to My Sites → Posts.
- Click on the post you want to assign to a category.
- Under Post Settings on the right, expand the Category option.
- Click the checkbox next to the category you want the post to be assigned to and publish your changes.
How do I remove a post category in WordPress?
When this happens, you can easily change previously set categories for individual posts.
- Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
- Click “Posts” from the left pane and locate the post you want to change.
- Hover your cursor over a post and click “Edit.”
- Uncheck any category to remove it from the post.
Why do you put posts in different categories in WordPress?
Each post in WordPress is filed under one or more Categories. This aids in navigation and allows posts to be grouped with others of similar content. Each Category may be assigned to a Category Parent, allowing you to set up a hierarchy within the Category structure. In creating Categories, recognize that each Category Name must be unique.
How to add, edit and delete categories in WordPress?
By default, WordPress has Uncategorized as a default category. You can easily change the default categories from Settings > Writing from admin panel. Well, we can add, edit and delete categories via two different methods. You can add category while adding a new post or you can add from the posts section of the admin panel.
How to add categories to custom post type?
Manually Adding Categories to a Custom Post Type. If you created your custom post type by adding the code in your theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific plugin, then you will have to modify the code to add category as supported taxonomy. All you need to do is add this line in the arguments for your CPT. ‘taxonomies’ => array( ‘category’ ),
How do you change the name of a WordPress post?
From your WordPress dashboard, go to Posts > Categories. Select any category and click Edit to change its name and slug. For example if you want all your posts to be under “green banana” category instead of “banana”, simply rename your category and all your posts will be updated with new category name.