Is there a way to remove the categories all together?

  • My categories are such a pain in the ass. Is there a way to remove them from my site?

    I don’t want to delete them one by one, that would take too long. Can I just go into my theme editor and remove them there?

    Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question – I’m really new to wordpress..

    THanks,
    Jocelyn

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  • If you don’t like them… why do you use them and why do you have a lot? Especially, if you are new to WP?
    You need at least one category: posts can NOT exist outside of categories.

    Thread Starter icydkcom

    (@icydkcom)

    Okay, so how do I put them all in uncategorized…do each one manually.

    I have a celebrity site, and there are a TON of celebrities. Plus, I have so many categories that the categories themselves keep crashing my site (according to my server)

    Make sure you have a category you like marked as the default. As you delete each category, any posts that were assigned to it will get moved over to the default category.

    You can remove any template tags in your theme that refer to categories and just pretend they don’t exist.

    How many do you have? I’ve never heard of categories crashing a server… and I’ve heard of folks having many hundreds or thousands.

    If you simply want them to stop showing up on the homepage, remove that section in your sidebar.php. Should look somthing like this:

    < li id=”category-links”>
    <h2>Categories</h2>
    < ul>
    <?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&hierarchical=1’); ?>
    < /ul>
    < /li>

    Unless you’re using widgets, of course…

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