Deleting a 'default' category

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  uceapsocialmedia · Member · Feb 6, 2015 at 7:19 pm

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  My list of categories includes one that appears to be the default category (for lack of a better term). I cannot delete this category, and I want to because the slug is student-spotlight-2 (not cool).

  I think this is the reason I can’t delete the category:

  Deleting a category does not delete the posts in that category. Instead, posts that were only assigned to the deleted category are set to the category Student Spotlight.

  I’ve created a new Student Spotlight category, updated all the posts to that one so the slug is better. How do I delete the other category?

  Thanks in advance!

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  pmciano · Member · Feb 7, 2015 at 2:52 pm

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  @uceapsocialmedia

  It appears that you’ve renamed a default Category, which cannot be deleted:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-delete-category-1?replies=4#post-2226699

  You can simply rename it back to its default value, if you find the current value to be unacceptable.

  Let us know if you have any more questions.