Adding & managing WordPress categories after the fact

Categories are the key to organizing your WordPress blog.  Even long after a post has been published you can edit the categories. You can edit them one at a time or in bulk.  Check out the easy steps in the video and written out below.

Video:Adding & managing categories after the fact

Instructions

1. Login to your WordPress blog and start at the dashboard
2. Select Posts
3. Select Edit
4. Proceed to single post, bulk posts or edit

To edit a single post you should

1. Click the Quick Edit button underneath the post title
2. Check or uncheck categories
3. Click Update Post to save

To edit multiple posts you should

1. Check all the posts you want to change
2. Choose Edit from the Actions Menu
3. Click Apply
4. Check or uncheck categories
5. Click Save

You can also edit a category along with all other aspects of a post

1. Click the Edit button underneath the post title
2. Check or uncheck categories
3. Click Save

Wrap-Up

Categories are an effective way to organize your blog.  However, any organization scheme needs occasional refreshing. WordPress offers features to make it easy to add, delete and rename categories to keep your blog well organized and optimized for your readers.

See my Using WordPress series for more tutorials on how to use WordPress!

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