Editing Categories

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  shaunvaughan · Member · Jun 8, 2017 at 9:15 pm

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  Trying to add and rename categories and it says I’m not allowed to do that. Please help. Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2017 at 9:18 pm

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  Please read:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  Setting the Default Category
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#setting-the-default-category

  1. To edit or delete a category assigned to a post (whether it’s a draft or has already been published), go to Dashboard → Posts → All Posts in your dashboard, hover over the title and click the Edit link. To delete the post click the Trash link.

  For editing posts in the new editor see https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#go-back-and-edit-posts

  For bulk editing posts see https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

  2. To edit/delete categories in your dashboard go to Dashboard → Posts → Categories

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

  * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.

  3. To edit or delete dynamic category pages in your custom menu go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menus

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php

  * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.

  4. To edit or delete Tags go to
  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag

  * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.

  The combined total of categories and tags assigned to any post must not exceed 15 or it will not display on WordPress.COM Categories and Tags pages and in the WordPress.COM Reader. Never assign the same keyword as both a category and a tag as they are considered to be the same for search engine purposes. Please read this support doc closely http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts

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  shaunvaughan · Member · Jun 9, 2017 at 6:19 pm

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  Thanks for your help but this somehow took care of itself. It seems I was doing what I wanted correctly but it was giving me an error and my edit didn’t appear to take effect. However, I refreshed the page and my change was indeed in there. Also, after I refreshed I was able to edit with no recurrence of that message. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  timethief · Member · Jun 9, 2017 at 6:20 pm

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  I refreshed the page and my change was indeed in there.

  Great news! Happy blogging.