Category to Tag Converter
October 8, 2007
Since launching tags the other week we’ve had a fair number of people who wanted to redo their categories as tags, probably because you have a bunch of categories you’ve only used once or twice.
Now under Manage > Import there’s a Category to Tag converter, which shows you how many times you’ve used each category and allows you to convert it to a tag so it no longer shows up as a category checkbox on your write page.
Enjoy!
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This is something I definitely need 😀 My categories list beyond the posts on my page!! Thank you.
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Works perfectly with the categories I tried… thanks!
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Hey Thats Cool Thanks!
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great feature. Saved a lot of labor.
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Sweetness! I’ve been fooling around with Categories and Tags all weekend, and this is just the thing I need. Thanks lots!
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At last! Thank you, Matt!
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Wow! Great idea!
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Brilliant, thanks! Now I can get my stuff sorted the way I like it.
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OMG, you’ve just save me about 6 hours of manual work! Thank you SO much!!!!
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Shoot, can we convert them back? I just changed them all to tags but now I’d prefer to have left them alone:(
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It’s a good thing you did that – it’s a bad thing that I did the work manually some days ago…
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Thanks Matt!
I’ve been waiting for this.
Keep up the good work!
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Guys, you’ve outdone yourself! Even with a modest number of posts, it can still be a hassle manually updating each post, which is why I never bothered…until now. I was hoping you guys would do something like this, cheers!
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Good thing! Ahorra muchísimo tiempo!
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This is great, thanks! 🙂
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Well thought! This will be *very* helpful 🙂
Thank you!
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Thanks Matt for the information! hopingly it will be a precious thing for me, and good luck always for you and all!
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This is an excellent tool. Thank you for adding tags and now for making it easier to move to them.
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yeah…that’ll make things really convenient, thank you!
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that´s was awesome…
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finaly !!!!!! wordpress rocks!!!!!!!!!
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Wow,
That was amazing.
Over 400 categories converted to tags in less than a minute.
The “Write” page is so much cleaner and easyer to manage now.
Thank you,
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awesome!
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That’s awesome! I wish I hadn’t done them all by hand already. 😦 Fortunately, I am a fairly new blogger, so it wasn’t too bad.
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mucho gracias…but I already spent lots of time converting 😦
No worries though….I’m loving the separation of tags and categories so much I won’t whine 🙂
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thank u matt……….a thousand times !!!
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I could really cut down on some of the lesser ones like [geist]. Thanks, 🙂
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thats gr8 !!
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thanks
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Bloody awesome, just what I needed. Thanks mate.
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Great, something I want was answered. Thanks Matt 🙂
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this is good
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I have been postponing this job of changing categories into tags and now that its easier should get down to it right away!
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Any news on mass editing/changing/adding categories? I’m really waiting for that one… 🙂
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Thank you. My few (but very pertinent!) categories didn’t want to share 😉
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Just after I’ve been adding tags to all my posts…. 😛
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Thanks for listening to our request. I’m going to try this out.
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*stops doing the jungle dance*
Thats precisely what I wanted….thanx a ton!
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Many Thanks
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Very nice feature. Thank you.
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Cool, ty¡
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So good!
Thanks, Matt!
Christian
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yes! i’m glad i was too lazy to reorganize before now =) thank you, it will be much easier now, once i get around to it…
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Ah, control.
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wow. You guys are the best :).
thanks
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You guys just rock.
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Fantastic, I have just migrated most of my categories to tags.
Categories are now readable again, and make much more sense.
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It’s a good thing you did that – it’s a bad thing that I did the work manually some days ago… [3]
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I just love converting tag. I could do it all day long.
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Cool. It’s interesting to see what categories I use most.
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Neat-o.
Still not sure how I am going to deal with this Category-Tags thing ….
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top stuff, dude.
Ta
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😀 I wuv you guys.
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excellent – thank you. 🙂
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Most excellent! It literally took me five minutes to clean up my categories list. You guys rock!
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That’s what I was waiting for… You guys do a good job!
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that’s a great features
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good
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thats good
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so obvious, so unlikely, so thoughtful. muy bueno Matt. WP i.t. iz teh biznizez.
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Hey!
Wicked! Thanks wordpress, you rule!
-Graser 10
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This is great! 😀
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Wow!thanks a lot!
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thanks for informations! we need more please!
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like wow, i never would have thought of that, but it makes perfect sense, thanks!
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This is insanely great! Thank you WP for always thinking about the community!
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Thanks!!!
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WordPress ***always*** rocks!
So… is there a way we can convert them back if we want? … or even have both? ,,, just a thought.
Anyway, big chunky “Thanks”
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Fantastic. I asked about this when you announced tags, went away for a while and like magic you’ve made the tool. Great work guys.
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not sure if i will use this right away, but it is definitely a great step towards increasing the intuitive nature of wordpress. great job.
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Thanks Baby
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I love both categories and tags. Thanks guys! WordPress is the best!!
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Yes, it’s progress but I don’t think it’s complete yet. WordPress have a cardinality problem but haven’t nailed it yet:
Suggestion!
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Damn it…I should have read this post first, before all the manual labour…lol, oh well, now I know.
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my tag / categories revamp took 96.2342% less time than i had planned
time for wine
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Thanks for the info!
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Nicer!
As rightly identified, I’ve some categories which have been very less used. Hence, it would be better converting them into tags of course. And with the toiling made easy, it catches my attention for doing so.
Thanks!
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You guys are just too good…!!!
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Cool!
I owe you a lot!
Thanks all admin team!!!
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