{"id":1147,"date":"2009-09-20T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2010-10-09T02:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:42:01","slug":"converting-wordpress-tags-into-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/technology\/converting-wordpress-tags-into-categories.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting WordPress Tags into Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took me a little while to figure out how to convert tags into categories<\/strong> in my WordPress blog, and here’s hoping that someone else doesn’t need to search as much.<\/p>\n

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Wordpress Tags to Categories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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  1. In the Administration section, click “Posts”<\/li>\n
  2. Under Posts, click “Categories”<\/li>\n
  3. At the bottom of the page, click the “category to tag converter” – bear with me, I haven’t gotten mixed up :)<\/li>\n
  4. In the new screen, you should finally see a “Tag to Categories” button!<\/li>\n
  5. Here simply select which tags to convert into categories, and WordPress will obligingly do it’s duty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it. No plug ins, no coding and no SQL. Simple, clean, and effective. Hope you found this useful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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