Are you looking for a simple way to merge and bulk edit WordPress categories and tags? Most WordPress blogs require some spring cleaning after a while. It may be necessary to move posts between categories and tags, or to combine similar categories and tags. We’ll show you how to merge and bulk edit categories and tags in WordPress in this article.
When Should You Merge WordPress Categories and Tags?
When starting a new WordPress blog, many users are unaware of how to properly use categories and tags.
They accumulate an excessive number of categories or tags over time. Some of these categories, as well as tags with only one post, are inactive.
Frequently, you will discover that your categories or tags are overly similar and can be grouped together into a single category or tag.
Editing each post and reassigning categories and tags is one solution. However, it will take too long, and you may miss some posts as a result.
The easier solution is to use WordPress to bulk edit and merge categories and tags.
In WordPress, you can merge and bulk edit categories and tags.
The first step is to download and activate the Term Management Tools plugin. See our step-by-step guide to installing a WordPress plugin for further information.
After activation, go to Posts » Categories and select Bulk actions from the dropdown menu.
The interface will be updated to include new bulk actions. Here are some examples of what you can do with bulk actions.
In a custom taxonomy, you can combine categories, tags, and terms.
All terms can be moved from one taxonomy to another. You can, for example, convert all of your categories to tags.
You can assign a parent category to multiple categories in a matter of seconds.
Your website’s content can be organized using categories and tags. This makes it easier for users to find the content they want to see. Using categories and tags correctly can also help you rank higher in search engines.
To keep your site organized, we recommend that you clean up your categories and tags once a year.
We hope you found this article useful in merging and bulk editing categories and tags in WordPress.
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