Assigning categories to posts

  • alda

    (@alda)


    18 years ago

    Hi,

    I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to assign categories to old posts (or vice-versa). I recently migrated from Blogger which allowed me to go back through my old posts and simply assign categories to selected ones. Is there any such thing available in WordPress?

    Incidentally, I have tried to install this plugin, but get a fatal error when I try to activate it.

    Thanks.
    Alda
    http://www.icelandweatherreport.com

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  • jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    18 years ago

    Well, you should be able to go to the Manage Posts page, navigate to the old pre-WP posts and click Edit and assign them a category just as you would if you were typing a new post. My blog has been around since 2002 and it is an alamgamation of Blogger, Greymatter (don’t laugh) and finally WordPress. I was able to go back and assign categories to all my old posts with ease. You shouldn’t need a plugin for that. Granted, it’s time consuming, if you have a lot of posts, but it can be done.

    Thread Starter alda

    (@alda)

    18 years ago

    Yes, well, the time-consuming part is what I hoped to avoid. :-/

    I’ve got 800+ posts to wade through. Going the manual route might take me years!

    ivovic

    (@ivovic)

    18 years ago

    assuming a generous 30 seconds per post, doing it that way would take you about seven hours. You posted this thread about a day ago. You could have been done by now 😉

    Seriously, there are plugins which let you mass-modify posts, trawl through the plugin repository here on this site.

    Thread Starter alda

    (@alda)

    18 years ago

    Ok ok, if you want to get all literal about it! I’d still have to allow for recovery times for the tendons in my wrist, though. 😉

    I’ll check out the plugins. Thanks for the tip.

    Alda
    http://www.icelandweatherreport.com

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