Default category name

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  mariawalker · Member · Mar 27, 2022 at 11:18 pm

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  I’m trying change the default category name for my posts from ‘.’ to ‘Archive’. Every time I try to do this my computer seems to free up. Can you help?

  Thanks,
  Maria

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 28, 2022 at 5:28 am

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  Hi there, what’s the address of the site you need help with? Once we know that we can point you in the right direction for support.

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  mariawalker · Member · Mar 28, 2022 at 10:11 am

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  Hi, thanks for your reply. The site is: mariawalker.wordpress.com.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 28, 2022 at 1:51 pm

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  Hello again, I’m flagging your thread for Staff attention.

  My educated guess is that “Archive” is a reserved name, so you might not be able to use that as a category. However, I could be wrong. Let’s wait for Staff to reply here.

  Also, can you explain a little more about why you want your default category as “archive”? What are you trying to accomplish?

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  mariawalker · Member · Mar 28, 2022 at 3:03 pm

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  I would like to use “Archive” as the default category since the posts are archives of my artwork / news. I don’t think it’s an issue of using that word. I tried changing the name to something else previously and ran into the same issue of the computer just freezing when I tried to save the change of name.

  Thanks for your help!

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  staff-sheva · Staff · Mar 28, 2022 at 4:06 pm

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  Hi @mariawalker,

  Yes, @justjennifer is correct in that archive is reserved within WordPress — please consider using something different (e.g. the-archives).

  With regards to your browser freezing, please try the following:

  • Visit https://www.whatsmybrowser.org/ and share the URL next to the green button in your next reply if you still encounter issues.
  • Clear your browser cache.
  • Try switching your web browser to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. You might also want to try out the official WordPress.com app.
  • Disable any content blockers, such as Adblock, and any other browser extensions.

  Hope that helps.

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  mariawalker · Member · Mar 28, 2022 at 4:18 pm

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  Hi, thanks for your reply. I will try your suggestions.
  Is it possible that the change is freezing up since I have many posts (~84) linked with that default category? Many of the posts include photos as well. Not sure if this makes a difference with the update– I’m curious to hear your thoughts.

  Thanks again,
  Maria

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  staff-sheva · Staff · Mar 28, 2022 at 4:59 pm

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  Yes, you can bulk edit from the classic view of your posts screen. To enter wp-admin, click on “screen options”, as shown here:

  

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  mariawalker · Member · Mar 28, 2022 at 6:42 pm

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  great! That worked. Thanks for your help!