[wp-hackers] Category table

[John Blackbourn]

I see, sorry, I thought when you said you wanted to move all the
uncategorized posts that they were in the 'Uncategorized' category :-)

Check out Ryan's post
<http://boren.nu/archives/2007/08/26/wordpress-23-taxonomy-schema/>
for a good explanation of the taxonomy schema.

John.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> John Blackbourn wrote:
>>
>> Avoiding the question slightly, you could get the desired outcome as
>> follows:
>>
>> 1. Create your new category if you haven't already (or decide which
>> existing category you're going to move these posts into).
>> 2. Set this category as the default category via the Manage ->
>> Categories screen.
>> 3. On the same screen, delete the Uncategorised category.
>>
>> The act of deleting a category will move all the posts in it into the
>> default category.
>>
>
> A good idea, but this appears to assume that the posts are in the
> "Uncategorized" category. That doesn't appear to be the case.
>
> The URL does pick up the default category. However, the posts I need to fix
> do not appear to be in any category at all, either the default category or
> the "Uncategorized" category. That is,
>
> 1. When editing the post, no category is checked.
>
> 2. The posts I need to fix do not show up in the list of posts under the
> category title. That is, when paging through
> http://www.elharo.com/blog/category/uncategorized/ or
> http://www.elharo.com/blog/category/birding/ you never see these posts.
>
> That's why I suspect some database level surgery is required.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo at metalab.unc.edu
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