It took me a little while to figure out how to convert tags into categories in my WordPress blog, and here’s hoping that someone else doesn’t need to search as much.
Wordpress Tags to Categories
Basically I found that too many of my tags were long term “slots” and I wished that some were categories instead (poor planning I know). With so many posts, I wasn’t relishing the idea of changing each (even with the “Quick Edit” functionality.) After some searching, I finally found that it could be done using in-built WordPress functionality! So here’s how to go about it:
- In the Administration section, click “Posts”
- Under Posts, click “Categories”
- At the bottom of the page, click the “category to tag converter” – bear with me, I haven’t gotten mixed up :)
- In the new screen, you should finally see a “Tag to Categories” button!
- Here simply select which tags to convert into categories, and WordPress will obligingly do it’s duty.
That’s it. No plug ins, no coding and no SQL. Simple, clean, and effective. Hope you found this useful!
Thank you for the simple directions – they don't make this easy to find, IMO. Cheers!
It's kind of hiding in plain sight. I converted all my categories to tags without thinking, then regretted it. I failed to remember that I like the hierarchical aspects of categories. This article saved my brain. Thanks!
Thank you thank you thank you! I was looking for this converter. They've hidden it, so good that without this article it was impossible to find it.
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Thanks so much – had just found out I could go from Categories to Tags but didn't even notice you could do the reverse as well – which is what I needed to do! You rock – thanks for the help!
This no longer works as a fix.