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racheljoy28 on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

racheljoy28 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:52:14 +0000

Another thankyou from me too!

mquigleysplace on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

mquigleysplace — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:49:49 +0000

The answer came from "thesacredpath" member. SO simple once I knew where to go. THANKS.
Marilyn

thesacredpath on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

thesacredpath — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:19:19 +0000

You are welcome. I didn't even think of it till I took a look at the site and then activated it in one of my test blogs and looked in the theme options to see if it could be turned off.

raincoaster on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

raincoaster — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:28:10 +0000

Ah, thanks! This is what I get for not knowing themes!

thesacredpath on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

thesacredpath — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:10:48 +0000

Go to appearance > theme options and select "Hide category links in top navigation" and then save changes.

raincoaster on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

raincoaster — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:09:00 +0000

You don't have any posts, so you don't have any categories either. It doesn't matter if they're typed in or not; if you have no posts, you will have no categories on the blog.

My advice: bite the bullet and publish a post. A post that is categorized. The absolute worst-case scenario is: you'll have exactly what you have now, only without an error message and WITH a nice post.

mquigleysplace on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

mquigleysplace — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:06:46 +0000

Thanks for all the help. BUTno matter what I do--how I follow all the advice to the best of my ability--I cannot get rid of the words NO CATEGORY that FOLLOWS the first line on the page: mQuigley'sPlace (and then the tag line explaining it). "NO CATEGORY" comes BEFORE my actual blog title and the category it is filed under (which I can change by going to the "writing" section." My blog has a category title. But above that is a line that seems to demand some kind of very important heading. In other words, if this were an outline, it would be Roman numeral I; and beneath that comes the title of my first blog. I hate to publish a first blog that begins with bold letters NO CATEGORY. I know I'm a pain to all you pros, but this is so frustrating. Thanks a million for help.

absurdoldbird on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

absurdoldbird — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:48:59 +0000

In order for 'uncategorized' not to show, you have to first of all create and then check another category or categories, and then you have to uncheck 'uncategorized'. And actually there is a way to set one main category to show as a default rather than 'uncategorized' and that is to go to the dashboard for your blog, scroll down the page til you see in the left-hand side panel 'Settings'. From the 'Settings' menu, choose 'Writing'. On the page that comes up you'll see an option called 'Default Post Category' and you can choose from the Categories you've already made so that 'uncategorized' won't show up.

If your blog doesn't have a main category, you could always create one that's a bit more generalised than most just to stop it defaulting to 'uncategorised'. For instance, I did this in my art blog and just created a category with the name of the blog itself. So instead of it saying 'posted by Val in Uncategorized' it says 'Posted by Val in Art by Val Erde' (I won't give the link in case it looks like I'm spamming!)

I hope that helps, I remember when I was new to WordPress, it took a while to learn it.

raincoaster on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

raincoaster — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:58:48 +0000

You cannot have a post that is not in any category.

thesacredpath on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

thesacredpath — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:27:45 +0000

You assign categories in the post editor. Open the post in the editor and in the categories module select the category you want assigned to the post and deselect the one you do not.

You can also go to settings > writing and set your preferred default post category if you wish so that you do not have to select it all the time. As you start to get more posts on different subjects, you may want to start organizing the posts by categories so that people can get a list of just the posts in that particular category if they wish.

srekcahrai on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

srekcahrai — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:14:17 +0000

You can't make a post with no category.

If you want to rename category then it is available in posts>categories.

mquigleysplace on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

mquigleysplace — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:36:59 +0000

I went in to an existing blog then to EDIT, and then over to the right I added a category called BEGINNINGS. I already have one category there, and both of them now show. I have tried checking one, checking both, checking none. I can't get "NO Category" to turn into the name of a category or the main category. I appreciate the help.

srekcahrai on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

srekcahrai — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:59:51 +0000

You can't remove/delete the uncategorized. You must rename it into some another category(main category of blog).

raincoaster on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

raincoaster — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:53:16 +0000

That's the category the post is filed in. If you don't make a new category and file it in that, all your posts will be Uncategorized.

mquigleysplace on "I can't remove "Uncategorized" at the top"

mquigleysplace — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:42:03 +0000

I have my first blog ready to go except for one thing: the word "uncategorized" appears almost as the first item. I have tried everything and looked everywhere. WHAT is supposed to go there? Or how can that item just be removed?

Thanks,
Marilyn

sberkun on "How to make a blog post not look like a blog post"

sberkun — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:11:06 +0000

TorontoHotels.ca doesn't appear to be a valid URL. Have another example with at a working website?

It's also useful to know if your site is hosted on wordpress.com or at another hosting service, as the support-bot suggests above. Your choices are very different depending on where your site is hosted.

supportbot on "How to make a blog post not look like a blog post"

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westcoastwp on "How to make a blog post not look like a blog post"

westcoastwp — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:16:01 +0000

I've googled this topic and the web sites that come up suggest using certain plugins (such as the 'no category' plugin in conjunction with the 'redirection' plugin). However, I have not been successful in using these plugins.

What I'm trying to do for my website is create a list of hotels in the center column. For each hotel, I would like to have a title, a small thumbnail, a small description (100 words or less), and a link to more in-depth descriptive page of the particular hotel. A perfect example of the look I'm going for can be seen in the "Feature Hotels" section near the top of the page at TorontoHotels.ca (I'm not affiliated with them).

Is there a plugin, widget, etc that will make this type of listing?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a bunch.

runningmad on "Changing default category"

runningmad — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:39:51 +0000

Thanks very much, that worked!

drmike on "Changing default category"

drmike — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:33:00 +0000

Sheeze, TT. Give me time to delete it. :)

Spammer reported and post deleted. :)

To change your defaults, it's Dashboard -> Options -> Writing. You'll see two of them. One is for Posts and the other one if your your blogroll.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

timethief on "Changing default category"

timethief — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:01:17 +0000

SPAMMING THE FORUM - What's next? WHAT is this advertisement doing on the support forum?

nosysnoop on "Changing default category"

nosysnoop — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:29:45 +0000

You want to change the name from Uncategorized to something else?

runningmad on "Changing default category"

runningmad — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:43:10 +0000

I have searched the FAQ and the support forums and haven't been able to figure this out. How do I change the default category from "Uncategorized"? I am on the manage categories page, and I see how to add categories, but not to change the default. I edited the category I wanted to make default and did not see an option there. Am I missing this, or is it not possible?
Thanks!