How do i delete a category?

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  theinfluenceapparel · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 1:15 am

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  Need to know how to delete a category under the “category and tag” section while posting. Specific please!

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  elzrjose · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 5:34 am

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  Hello, currently you can’t delete a category under the Categories & Tags section. You’ll need to delete it through your WP Admin Dashboard which is located here: http://theinfluenceapparel.wordpress.com/wp-admin

  How to go to WP Admin from your My Sites page:
  Click Switch Site on the left sidebar, choose your site, scroll down at the very bottom of the left sidebar and click WP Admin (screenshot here).

  On your WP Admin Dashboard, go to Posts > Categories (screenshot here). Hover on the category you want to delete and then click delete.

  If you have a lot of categories that you want to delete, then you can use the bulk actions feature. Select each category you want to delete using the checkbox to the left of the category name.

  Once you have selected the categories you want to delete select Delete from the Bulk Actions menu, and then click Apply. The categories will be deleted.

  Note: When a category is deleted, all posts that were only in that category will be assigned to the default category. If a post was also in other categories it will remain untouched.

  Here’s the support page on deleting categories:

  Organize Posts with Categories