Bulk Assign Categories

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  happyhollyproject · Member · Dec 9, 2012 at 5:19 pm

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  Finally have enough blog posts to warrant Categories … but I don’t want to go out one by one to assign them.

  I see that wordpress.org has a bulk category assign PHP …

  How do you do it on wordpress.com?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Dec 9, 2012 at 5:23 pm

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  Support pages are full of all sorts of information:

  Organize Posts with Categories

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  happyhollyproject · Member · Dec 9, 2012 at 5:33 pm

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  Thank you …

  But the only bulk action I see is to delete a category from the category list … I want to assign an existing category to many existing blog posts … at the same time.

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Dec 9, 2012 at 5:53 pm

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  It’s really the same thing, but here’s another page that details it another way:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

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  happyhollyproject · Member · Dec 9, 2012 at 6:27 pm

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  Thank you thank you thank you …

  I wish this link had come up when I did the Google search and the Forum search … hopefully the folks “in charge” will see this and do something to make that happen …

  Thanks again.