Categories : impossible to delete or modify
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Hello everyone,
It’s been hours that I’m on a problem that annoys me a little. Formerly it seems to me that going in Settings> Writing> Categories and that we could move our categories easily to put them in the order we wanted. Now, forced to go through the right drop down menu. However, there is a problem with my categories and since then, impossible to delete them or move them. Indeed, when I click delete, it does not matter at all. When I put ‘put without parent category’, it does not work, worse they tell me that the name of this category already exists when there is only one. Same thing for the labels.
Would you have a solution please?
I have already tried to delete the cache, clear cookies, etc …
I already tried with another browser.
I already tried with the WordPress App on PC.The address of the blog concerned is the chroniquesdejeremydaflon.wordpress.com.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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For example. I have a parent category “Action” that was hooked to “Movies” (no idea why she won …). I would either delete it (impossible, I clicked and it does not matter) or replace it under the category “Movies” (it does not work: they say that the name of this category already exists … WTF)
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I can not even change the name of the category, when I do it, the loading is infinite and it blocks the whole page.
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Hi –
Sure thing. I’m happy to look at this and get everything sorted. To start, the site you typed out in the post is chroniquesdejeremydaflon.wordpress.com and it does not exist.
leschroniquesdejeremydaflon.wordpress.com is an active working site. I assume that’s the one you’re trying to edit the categories for. Please confirm.
Currently the default post category is set to
Tous. Is that what you want? If not, that change can be made from this link:
https://leschroniquesdejeremydaflon.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-writing.phpAre you able to load this page? https://wordpress.com/settings/taxonomies/category/leschroniquesdejeremydaflon.wordpress.com
When I go there, I can see thatActionis a top level category with no child categories associated with it. Keep looking down the page and you’ll see that the first top level category with child categories listed isEditeurs. -
Hello.
All you said is correct. But the problem is that I can not move and delete some. I am very annoyed … -
When I click to delete the category “Action” or even “Fantastic”, it does not work. And when I put “Action” in child category, WordPress tells me that the category name already exists and I can not update. In short, I am stuck. There are undoubtedly bugs in your categories. It seems to me that there are problems with the labels as well.
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Hm, you may have assigned some incorrectly, if so that’s an easy fix.
Child categories can only exist under their Parent categories, and the Default category cannot be deleted.
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I do what WordPress offers me to do. I do not know that I just said something. But I’m annoyed because I need to prioritize my categories …
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#Oups I do not know that I just said something. -> I do not know how to solve the problem.
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I click on “OK” to permanently delete the category, but it does not remove it. Why ? This is not the default category.
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Sorry, I thought I had the link my reply, my mistake.
To change the default category: https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#assigning-default-category
And, to undo parent (top-level) categories, so they can be managed the same as the rest: https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#adding-categories
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I know all this and it does not work. I can take screenshots if you wish … Why can not I delete a single category? Nor even change his name? I know the process, it’s just WordPress that does not want to.
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I went through the WP-ADMIN, and it worked (for now). I think it’s good but there is really a bug in terms of categories, we have to go up the bug and look at what is wrong.
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Hm, ok let’s see if we can do that for you.
Specifically, which categories do you want to delete, and which categories do you want to move?
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In passing with Wp-admin, I managed to do it. But it’s not normal that I’m supposed to have been there. So my problem is solved. Thank you.
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In passing with Wp-admin, I managed to do it.
Thanks was able to easily do it from the sit/wp-admin .
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