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How to Delete a Category in WordPress
How to Delete a Category in WordPress

How to Delete a Category in WordPress?

Do you want to delete a category in WordPress? Whatever reason it may be, but you want to delete a category from your WordPress Website. Then how to delete it?

We assume you followed our previous post on How to add a category in WordPress? If you followed that post then it is dead easy to delete a category from WordPress.

If not, then you can read this post to delete a category from WordPress.

In our previous post, you learned about What Category is in WordPress, what are its uses, and how to add a category to a WordPress website? Now we will discuss how to delete a category?

How to Delete a Category from WordPress?

To delete a category in WordPress, you have to go to Your WordPress Admin Dashboard, then as previously, go to Posts in it and select categories.

Now, you will see Add New Category Heading on your left-hand side and Your Categories on the right-hand side.

To delete a category from your categories, select the category you want to delete or just hover over it. You will see Edit, Quick Edit, Delete and View. Click on Delete to Delete the Category.

Then a Pop up will show which says: “You are about to permanently delete these items from your site. This action cannot be undone. Cancel to stop, OK to delete

If you want to delete it Click OK.

Hurray! You have successfully deleted a Category from your WordPress Blog.

How to Delete Uncategorized Category from WordPress?

You might want to delete that Uncategorized Category and you were unable to delete the uncategorized category. This is because by default uncategorized category is your Default Category.

You cannot Delete  Default Category

To delete the uncategorized Category, first, you have to change the default category.

How to Change the Default Category in WordPress?

To Change the Default Category, You have to go to WordPress Writing settings, there you can change Default Parent Category, as we explained in WordPress Basic settings.

Now, we assume that you have changed the Default Parent Category.

Now come back to categories and here you can delete Uncategorized Category.

Yay! You have successfully deleted Uncategorized the default category.

How to Delete Multiple Categories in WordPress?

Suppose you want to delete categories in bulk i.e., you want to delete multiple categories in a go, then just you have to select categories you want to delete.

How to Delete a Category in WordPress

And click on the drop-down as shown in the screenshot -which displays Bulk Actions. When you click bulk actions, you will see Delete. Select Delete and Click Apply.

Then a Pop up will show which says: “You are about to permanently delete these items from your site. This action cannot be undone. Cancel to stop, OK to delete

If you want to delete it Click OK.

Hurray! You have successfully learned to delete multiple Categories in WordPress.

Do Deleting a Category will Delete All the Posts assigned to that Category?

Now one question arises in our mind that, when we delete a particular category, then do our posts that are assigned to that category will also be deleted?

No, it will not happen. Your posts assigned to deleted category won’t be deleted from your website.

What Happened to Deleted Category posts?

Now the question is then what happened to the posts of deleted category? The answer is simple, those posts will be assigned to your Default Category.

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How to add a category in WordPress?

How to add a category in WordPress?

Do you want to add a category in WordPress? Then we need to first look at what actually Category is?

What is a Category?

A category is one of the WordPress taxonomies, and it is used to sort and group WordPress posts into different sections.

So, a category is used for arranging blog posts in different sections. Like librarians, use to set books according to their topics in different racks. Likewise, you can set blog posts according to their topics.

What is the use of Categories in WordPress?

As Discussed above, Categories are used to sort and arrange WordPress Blog posts in different sections. This will be helpful in the readability of WordPress.

A visitor can read the same topic posts in a particular category.

Suppose, a reader wants to read about WordPress Plugins, and you have a category named WordPress Plugins. Then he/she can browse the WordPress Plugin category and read the posts he is interested in. And this will increase the Website’s Session duration and ultimately decrease the Bounce rate of the website. And these factors are important for SEO.

How to add a category in WordPress?

Now, the important question is how can I add Categories to my WordPress website?

Adding Category in WordPress is very easy, basically, you can add Category in WordPress in 2 ways

  1. Adding Category from WordPress dashboard
  2. Adding Category while writing a post

1. Adding Category from WordPress dashboard: Adding Categories from the WordPress dashboard is very easy, if you follow our previous posts like adding posts in WordPressadding users in WordPress, etc., then you will find it really simple to add a category in WordPress.

Log in to WordPress Dashboard and go to Posts, then select Category in Posts as shown in the screenshot.

Now you are on the categories page. Before adding a category using this method. Let us understand some of the textboxes you have to fill here.

Name: This is easy to understand, no need to write about it. Here you have to write the name of your Category.

Slug: The Slug is the URL-friendly name of the category name, and it has lowercase letters, hyphens, and numbers only.

For example, my category name is WordPress Plugins then its slug will be ” https://allwp.in/category/wordpress-plugins/ “

Parent Category: Categories can have a hierarchy in them. To attain this hierarchy, you need to use the parent Category. Let understand it with an example.

Suppose, My Main Category name is WordPress and now I want to add the WordPress Plugins Category inside the WordPress Category.

Then while adding the WordPress Plugins category, you have to Select WordPress Category as Parent Category.

Then, the WordPress Plugins category will be the Child category of the WordPress Category.

If you don’t want to have hierarchy or Parent-child categories then You should set Parent Category as None. And it is the default selection as shown.

Description: As the name suggests, description is the detail about the category you are adding. It is not mandatory to write descriptions of the categories. And not all the themes show the Category description in WordPress. Some themes only show it.

Add New Category Button: After filling all the details, at last click on Add New Category button to add the above category.

So, fill up all the details and Click on Add New Category, and you have successfully added the Category in WordPress.

Hurray! You have added a Category in Your WordPress Website or Blog

By using this method, you can add multiple categories you need to your whole WordPress website.

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2.Adding Category While Writing Post:

The other method is to write a category while writing or publishing your post. In this method, while writing a WordPress posts. Click on the Settings button on the top beside Publish button as shown in the screenshot.

Then, scroll down you will see the category, in that if you don’t have the category related to the post. Then, Click on Add New Category as shown in the screenshot.

Hurray, You have successfully added New Category live.

How to Select Category in WordPress Post?

To select the category for your WordPress post, then you have to follow the above method.

Write your post, then click on setting, In settings scroll down, you will see the category name and Select the Appropriate Category for your post.

How to Delete a Category in WordPress?

We will discuss it in our upcoming posts. Stay tuned.

We hope this post is helpful to you in understanding WordPress Category, and how to add a category in WordPress. If it is helpful to you kindly like and share it on social media. If you have any feedback, do comment. It will help us to improve.