Title: Categories Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Categories Problem

 *  [fassers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fassers/)
 * (@fassers)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/)
 * Hi All
 * Merry Christmas 🙂
 * I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction of a plugin I am 
   looking for. I have over a 1000 different categories I want to add to my blog
   but the only way is to copy and paste each one manually into WordPress.
    It takes
   forever Does anyone know of a way to do all of them together at once. I have 
   them all in a text file with each one on a new line.
 * Thanks a lot for any help anyone can provide on this
 * Stephen

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 *  [lynje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lynje/)
 * (@lynje)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/#post-300239)
 * Do you mean, that you can select categories while you’re typing your entry? And
   that they appear into your entry?
 * Just ad this line wherever you want the categories to appear in your entry, in
   the index.php:
 * Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?>
 * This what you mean? =)
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/#post-300243)
 * I know there is a batch categories plugin but this allows you to assign many 
   posts to a given category. I don’t know of any way to create a 1000 categories
   from a file containing a list of the category names, which is what I think you
   want to do.
 *  Thread Starter [fassers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fassers/)
 * (@fassers)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/#post-300249)
 * Thanks for the answers. What I mean is when you go to
    Manage – Categories and
   want to add new categories you can only add one at a time. I want to try and 
   add all at once as this would be a massive time saver.
 *  [schestowitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schestowitz/)
 * (@schestowitz)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/#post-300254)
 * It sounds like you are trying to migrate from another CMS or add some textual
   files that you have on your hard-drive. Where does the content come from? Maybe
   importers are available. You could also shove entries directly into the database
   rather than use the Web-based interface, provided you are confident in that area.
 *  [schestowitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schestowitz/)
 * (@schestowitz)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/#post-300255)
 * It sounds like you are trying to migrate from another CMS or add some textual
   files that you have on your hard-drive. Where does the content come from? Maybe
   importers are available. You could also shove entries directly into the database
   rather than use the Web-based interface, provided you are confident in that area.
 *  Thread Starter [fassers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fassers/)
 * (@fassers)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/#post-300264)
 * Hi
 * The content comes from a text file on my hard drive which is a list of the categories
   I want to set up. I am afraid messing with my database is something I wouldn’t
   be happy with 🙁 So you think there may be an importer available where I can 
   import all the information from my text file.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [fassers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fassers/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-problem-2/#post-300264)
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