Re-do my Categories to orderly Parent-Child format

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    5700words · Member ·

    Lorna
    Theme is “DePo.”
    lornakismet.wordpress.com

    I want to re-do my Categories and convert a lot of separate categories to Child categories under main Parent categories.
    If I delete all my existing categories and then re-do them in a more orderly way (Parent-Child) will my posts retain their existing tags? (That would be good for me.) Or would all my existing tags disappear, in which case I would have to patiently re-do all of them, or at least the ones that I choose to re-do?

    Thank you……..
    One thing about Categories is that I started out not realizing much about Categories and making scatter-shot categories as a result. Now I see my willy nilly approach as not tenable.

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    zenarchitect · Member ·

    I am just starting my blog. Sorry I can only add a simple questions to yours: how do I actually find categories? It is not obvious to me what button to push and find the categories already in use. Any help you can proide would be appreciated.
    Thank you,
    -Alan @ zenarchitect

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    @zenarchitect, in your dashboard’s sidebar: Posts > Categories.

    Perhaps you’ll find this useful:

    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/a-guide-to-the-new-dashboard-pt-1?replies=8

    And please give the URL of your blog when asking questions (from “http” to “com/”) – or link your nickname to your blog as explained in the Sticky “8 Things to Know”.

    (@Lorna: To turn categories into child-categories, you don’t delete them; you just go to Posts > Categories and edit them there. You can even batch edit all the ones you want to assign to one parent.)

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