Adding Subcategory on Hosted

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  tortdog · Member · Mar 6, 2007 at 2:51 pm

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  How do you add a subcategory on a WordPress.com hosted blog from the default write screen?

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  judyb12 · Member · Mar 6, 2007 at 3:15 pm

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  I don’t think you can. You have to add it as a main category and then edit it under Manage->Categories.

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  drmike · Member · Mar 6, 2007 at 3:23 pm

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  Not from the write Post screen. After you pushlish, just switch over to Manage -> categories and change it.

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  tortdog · Member · Mar 6, 2007 at 3:45 pm

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  I think I’ve noticed that if you put in a category that:

  * already exists as a parent – marks it as categorized
  * already exists as a child – changes the child to a parent and then marks it categorized.
  * doesn’t exist – marks it as a parent and categorized

  Is that right? If so, means we can’t just copy the categories in on one line, but have to manually check off each child category.

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  judyb12 · Member · Mar 6, 2007 at 3:50 pm

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  Wait, why are you adding categories that already exist?

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  tortdog · Member · Mar 6, 2007 at 3:52 pm

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  I type faster than I click with a mouse. And sometimes I have a list of tags that I want to use as categories, and I can just copy/paste.

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  tortdog · Member · Mar 6, 2007 at 4:03 pm

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  Additional note (can’t edit the above):

  If the categories already exist, then I don’t have to create them. If they don’t, they are created (and I manage the new categories afterwards).

  Drawback of this method is if there is already a child category, that child is “promoted” to a parent.