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tip
To go straight to the Categories to Tags screen, go to this URL (inserting your blog's username in place of
blog-
name
):
http://
blogname
.wordpress.com/wp-admin/admin.php?import=wp-cat2tag
To go straight to the Tags to Categories screen, go to this URL (inserting your blog's username in place of
blogname
):
http://
blogname
.wordpress.com/wp-admin/admin.php?import=wp-cat2tag&step=3
Moving Posts Among Categories
You can always change the categories a post is in as part of editing
the post, as described in the previous chapter. Sometimes, it's help-
ful to begin with a list of all the posts in a given category, which
helps you decide if all of them belong there, or if some of them
should be assigned to other categories, instead of, or in addition to,
their current category assignments.
Follow these steps to work on posts by category:
tip
Any time you click on a category
name, all the posts in that cate-
gory appear in a list. If you're in
your blog's Administration area
at the time, the list of posts will
be editable, including the cate-
gories of each post.
1.
From the Posts menu in the Administration area, choose
Categories. The Categories page appears, as previously shown in Figure 5.3.
2.
To see the specific posts that belong to a category, click the number of posts next to the cate-
gory name, under the Posts column header. An editable list of posts in that category appears in
the Edit Posts screen, as shown in Figure 5.6. It's similar to other Edit Posts lists, but all the
posts shown are in the category that you chose by clicking its number of posts. (The posts might
be in additional categories as well.)
3.
Within the Edit Posts list, you can change the category of a post. Click Edit to review the post,
change its category, or create a category, as described in Chapter 4, “Creating Your First Post.”
Click Quick Edit to change the categories and some other aspects without being able to review
the post or add a new category, as shown in Figure 5.6.
Should a Post Be in Two Categories?
We recommend that you try to make your categories mutually exclusive, meaning that each post
only goes in one category. This is easier on you and on your blog visitors. It might mean, though,
that a post sometimes doesn't show up in a category where you or a user expects it because it
belongs more strongly in a different category. Still, having each post in one or, at the most, two
categories simplifies things for all involved in the same way that having fewer categories does.
Once you have a simple set of categories, use tags to provide additional ways to find your posts,
not more categories.
