Renaming the Uncategorized Category on wordpress
WordPress, such a cool platform for blogs. Tons and tons of blogs in the blogosphere are running on this platform. I don’t know how many of you notice, but there is one category that you cannot delete through your WordPress Admin Panel. This category is named Uncategorized.
Sometimes when you forget to select a category, this category gets auto-selected. Or if you saved the post before selecting a category and later on went on to select an appropriate category, Uncategorized is still selected. So when you forget to select it, and the post gets published. It kind of puts a bad impression because it shows that the editor didn’t do quiet as good of a job. It taints the reputation of the blog also.
Personally in my opinion, when I see a site that have like one post or two posts in Uncategorized. I know the person has post it without noticing. So I notify them, and alot of the times it gets changed. So why won’t we just rename it.
Well I have renamed my uncategorized category to be named to Other. Because it makes sense and doesn’t say Uncategorized. So what I am saying is Other sounds more professional then Uncategorized.
Well it is really simple. Go to your Admin Panel.
Then Click on the Manage Tab and then Click Categories
Click on Uncategorized, and edit the name and slug
So now it will be named Other.
Hopefully you guys will use this. Let me know your thought about the name Uncategorized.
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I see what you mean syed, i have seen that before, thanks for the tip, thanks.
It never struck me that you should rename the uncategorized category. I think there is an option where you can specify a default category. On my blog, I do have a category under which I file mosts of my posts. But it may not be possible for all blogs. Nice tip Syed.
I was thinking about it the day,was actually wondering why it was named uncategories and why some of my posts goes there.Thanks for bringing this up,other makes more sense.Dashing over to my admin panel to change it.
glad this helps Tyna
Yeah, I usually just changed Uncategorized to “General”. It works quite well!
I think its not important change Uncategorized Category to other category if our post just tell about our live.
Great tip and a good idea. In the past I have just tried to avoid using it, though sometimes after saving a post I see I forgot and have to edit. This is a much better way to avoid the problem.
When I first started my blog I too avoided using it until about a few months ago when I changed it after I got tired of having too many categories.
Once again, something I didn’t think off for my blog. Thanks for the tip.
Btw Your contest is doing great, you keep your site alive and interesting!!!! good job!
Thanks Balkhis for the tip, nice fine tuning tip!
Yes indeed.