Category (for Posts, not Links) Management
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I love categories! I use them a TON. Recently, I was trying to send a link to a reader who was interested in all of my posts on a particular theme, and I did a little search to send her the link – and lo and behold – multiples of a category! WIERD!
Is it because I compose in Word and publish from there maybe?
How do I merge them all into ONE category?
And back in the day when I started blogging on a :ahem: different platform, there were some really great ways to do bulk management type operations. I.e., search for a keyword, select all of the posts that have that keyword, them add them all to the relevant category. It was GREAT! Does WordPress have something like that? I’ve tried figuring it out – and well, I’m just not seeing it!
Thanks!
dina
http://www.knownbyname.wordpress.comThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Let’s start with this. No wordpress.com blogs have “www” in their URLs. The correct URL for your blog is http://knownbyname.wordpress.com/
Provided you have assigned categories to your posts as described here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/ then there will be a deed for each category you have used. You can supply readers with the URL to any specific category feed. This is the format for a category feed on WordPress.com blogs:
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/category/categoryname/feed/See here for more information > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/30/wordpress-and-blogspot-subscribe-to-a-rss-category-feed/
Composing articles in microsoft WORD is fine but using that code is problematic as it contains extraneous junk code that does not meet web standards. See here for the explanation and the remedy for using “clean” HTML > http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/
Categories do not normally replicate. If you have duplicates it can be caused by using the same word or phrase as both a Category and as a Tag. If that’s the case then the remedy is to delete the tags.
If you have imported content from a Blogger blog then the Blogger code is problematic as it’s outdated and not up to current web standards. Therefore you must go here > Dashboard > Settings> Writing > Writing Settings >
There you must enable ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically and then scroll down and click “Save Changes”.
After you do that if you edit your most recent post and make an inconsequential edit like deleting and reinserting a period and then click “Update” you may find that any problems you have already will be corrected, and you won’t experience more in the future, provided you use icon 6 (post from Word) to clean up the HTML and insert it into your posts.
I hope I have covered all your issues but if I haven’t feel free to post to this thread again. Best wishes with your blog.
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You’re welcome. if you would like to link your wordpress.com username to your wordpress.com blog it’s easy to do. Dashboard -> Users -> Personal Settings -> then scroll down to ‘Account Details’. In the spot where it says ‘Website’ type in http://knownbyname.wordpress.com/ and save the changes.
Happy blogging. :)
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