You’d need to manipulate the DB, which is tricky but can be done if you get your head around it. Instructions below.
0 – MUST BE DONE FIRST – make a back up of your DB, just in case somthing goes wrong.
1 – Log out of your websites admin area.
2 – In the ‘wp_terms’ table –
a – locate the tag you wish to change to and note the ‘term_id’.
b – locate the cat that you wish to be the parent of the new sub-cat and also note that ID.
3 – In the ‘wp_term_taxonomy’ table –
a – locate the ‘term_id’ that you have just noted for the tag you wish to change.
b – click to edit this row.
c – change the column ‘parent’ to the ‘term_id’ of the of the cat you wish to use as the parent
d – change the column ‘taxonomy’ to say ‘category’.
e – click ‘Save’/’Ok’/’Go’/What ever your DB manager users as the button
4 – Log back in to your admin area and check to ensure all is good.
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ndev2k
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This works but it is a little long winded when I have over 1000 posts with about 250 different tags to change. Is there no plugins that will take the tags and make them into subcategories?
Don’t know, have a search for one – try using ‘custom taxonomy’ as a search term as well as ‘tags’ and ‘categoris’.
If none exist, perhaps you could consider writing one – sounds like it wouldn’t be an uncommon situation for somone to find them selfs in.
