Fast way to create large number of categories

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  wdpowell · Member · Mar 1, 2008 at 12:58 am

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  I would like to have blog categories for each city of each state. Maybe even counties too. That would be thousands of sub-categories. Cities would be a sub-category of states. What is an efficient way to create them all?

  I can find a database with all state/county/city/zip info. Is there a way to upload such a database to WP?

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  isadora · Member · Mar 1, 2008 at 7:41 am

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  Categories show up only if they contain at least one post, so there’s no point of retrieving them from a database. Maybe you should reconsider your categorizing concept.

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  isadora · Member · Mar 1, 2008 at 2:20 pm

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  This is a very good starting point for understanding categories and learn to use them: http://internetducttape.com/2007/07/20/climbing-out-of-category-hell/

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  wdpowell · Member · Mar 3, 2008 at 7:23 am

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  I plan on eventually having posts in all categories.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 3, 2008 at 3:34 pm

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  @wdpowell

  You might want to read through this thread here on the forums as this blogger had lots of categories and it caused him big problems. As Tellyworth suggests, it might be best to use tags if you hare going to need a lot.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=23261&replies=10