Deleting Categories by Mistake

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  maristravels · Member · Nov 17, 2012 at 6:23 pm

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  On my opening page I have two buttons with the name Thailand and two with the name Travel. I’m not sure about deleting one of these as I just tried to do that with another one (London, England) but I lost both it and the two posts that were on it. It says that if a category is deleted, the posts revert to the Uncategorised cat., but I don’t have this ‘uncategorised listing. I may have deleted it at some time, thinking I wouldn’t need it.
  Can I restore it myself, or should this be a process carried out by the backroom boys?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justpi · Member · Nov 18, 2012 at 5:40 am

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  a) The blog linked to your username is empty, and the one mentioned below your question has only one post, filed under “Uncategorized”. So apparently you’re talking about a different blog.

  b) When you delete a category, the posts that had been filed under that category aren’t assigned to “Uncategorized”, they are assigned to the category you’ve set as your default post category in Settings > Writing (which may or may not be “Uncategorized”).

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 18, 2012 at 5:46 am

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  @Panos,
  see this topic:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-see-a-list-of-all-posts?replies=3#post-1071125

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 18, 2012 at 5:48 am

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  @maristravels

  Please, again, please, give us volunteers a proper link to the site you are asking about when you post in these forums.

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  justpi · Member · Nov 18, 2012 at 6:11 am

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 18, 2012 at 6:26 am

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  ≥^!^≤

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  maristravels · Member · Nov 18, 2012 at 9:16 pm

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  My apologies for not having the correct web address on my query, I am fairly new to WordPress and, unfortunately, still making mistakes.

  Thank you for the advice and I have now corrected the web address and hope to have no more problems of this sort. I am about to tackle my original query and I’ll see what I can do there.

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  maristravels · Member · Nov 18, 2012 at 9:16 pm

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  My apologies for not having the correct web address on my query, I am fairly new to WordPress and, unfortunately, still making mistakes.

  Thank you for the advice and I have now corrected the web address and hope to have no more problems of this sort. I am about to tackle my original query and I’ll see what I can do there.