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How to Remove the Uncategorized Category in WordPress

rossdunn — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:00:27 +0000

Ever wondered how to remove the “uncategorized” category in WordPress? If you don’t use it, it is very annoying and can take up unnecessary (if not critical) space in your navigation. Luckily, it is quite simple to remove it if you know the process… in fact, you just might smack your forehead (like I did) when you realize how obvious it is.

Step 1: Change the Default Category for Posts

a) Log in to WordPress and in the left-hand menu go to “Settings > Writing”

b) Scroll down the resulting page and change the “Default Post Category” from “Uncategorized” to another category.

c) At the bottom of the page press “Save Changes”

Step 2: Delete the Uncategorized Category

a) In the left-hand menu go to “Posts > Categories”

b) On the resulting page, scroll over the “Uncategorized” category and you will see 3 options appear including “Delete”.

c) Delete the category

Voila! You are done and you now no longer need to be inconvenienced by the “Uncategorized” category.

I hope that helps… and you didn’t leave a mark on your forehead

How to Remove the Uncategorized Category in WordPress is a post from: WordPress SEO

The RSS Footer Plugin is a Must Have

rossdunn — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:43:47 +0000

Thanks to Joost de Valk at Yoast.com we have the ability to add text above or below the description of a post within our RSS feeds.

What does this mean? Here, let me show you:

Here is the RSS feed before RSS Footer has been enabled:

Here it is WITH the plugin enabled:

You can edit how this text appears by simply visiting “RSS Footer” in the “Settings” section and changing the following code:

Go Back to Step 3) Other WordPress SEO Plugins

The RSS Footer Plugin is a Must Have is a post from: WordPress SEO

An Example of How the SEO Slug Plugin Can Help Your Posts

rossdunn — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:31:14 +0000

Before we installed the SEO Slugs for WordPress Plug-in the URL created by this post title looked like this:

http://www.wordpressseo.ca/blog/an-example-of-how-the-seo-slug-plugin-can-help-your-posts/

If you look at that URL you will see that this URL is pretty long and although it is readable it could be far more concise.

With the SEO Slug plugin installed the slug is radically more concise:

http://www.wordpressseo.ca/blog/seo-slug-plugin-posts/

Perhaps, however, you want to makea change to the slug… will it hold? Yes! As soon as you make any edit to the slug the SEO Slug Plugin will no longer intervene. If you wish to go back to letting SEO Slug handle your URL slug then just edit the slug and delete what you have there and save. Voila! The plugin will take over once more.

Here is more information on the awesome SEO Slugs WordPress plugin

An Example of How the SEO Slug Plugin Can Help Your Posts is a post from: WordPress SEO