Can I merge categories?

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  sheepamongwolves · Member · Jul 11, 2014 at 8:33 pm

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  I am trying to clean up my blog, which is a school newspaper, and condense the number of categories to a more appropriate number. But the paper has a lot of articles from years past under old categories. Is there a way, for instance, that I could take all the articles in the “Student Events” category and put them under “News” by merging the “Student Events” category into “News”?

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  thatrobyn · Member · Jul 11, 2014 at 10:17 pm

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  Hi Mr. Sheehy!

  There is a way to do this with a bulk edit. It’s not an automatic adjustment, but it’s less labor intensive than opening each post and changing its category one at a time.

  1. To do this, click Posts → All Posts.
  2. On the left, next to each Post’s title, you’ll see a check box. Click the box for ALL the posts you want to recategorize.
  3. Now click the Bulk Actions drop down box and choose Edit.
  4. Under the Categories header, you can change the categories of those Posts.
  5. Click Update.

  That will do the trick. You can move onto the next page and continue the process.

  I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks much!

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  sheepamongwolves · Member · Jul 12, 2014 at 3:58 am

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  Thank you for an idea. Opening each post was discouraging …

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  thatrobyn · Member · Jul 12, 2014 at 4:23 pm

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  My pleasure. I can imagine that the thought of doing each post one-by-one would be exhausting!