Recategorizing posts

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  musicwork · Member · Jan 19, 2013 at 11:45 am

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  I have been writing my blog since 2007 and I want to redo my categories – create new categories, delete old categories, and reduce the total number I have – and then go through each post one by one and reassign categories.

  I understand how to do this from the Managing Categories info in Support, but what I am not clear on is how adding/deleting/renaming categories will impact on individual post URLs, or search engine links… are there implications I should be aware of? Will I be creating 404s? (I have never created links to musicwork.wordpress.com/categories/… in any of my posts but I suppose someone else may have).

  And if there are implications, are there any workarounds? I’m really keen to overhaul my blog – lots of things have changed since I first started writing.

  Thanks for any suggestions. My blog address is http://musicwork.wordpress.com.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 19, 2013 at 12:09 pm

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  It will not impact on either the post URLs or the tag URLs.

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  musicwork · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 1:50 am

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  Thanks Raincoaster.