WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Problem with Category-Tag Converter http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Problem with Category-Tag Converter en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:44:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 vivianpaige on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-143193 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:20:46 +0000 vivianpaige 143193@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @learningaswego - you will need to contact support to have the convert your tags back to categories. Use the feedback in your dashboard. Support is available M-F 9am-4pm Pacific time, if I remember correctly

]]> thesacredpath on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-143168 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:32:46 +0000 thesacredpath 143168@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @maegilder
You have been answered in the other thread you posted in. Please do not post in multiple threads as it causes us extra work answering you in three or four places.

Reference: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=18655&page&replies=10

]]> maegilder on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-143158 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:22:34 +0000 maegilder 143158@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ i'm having issues
it's email
how do i contact people outsied of wordpress ?

]]> learningaswego on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-143156 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:00:27 +0000 learningaswego 143156@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I did a tag conversion and it looks awful. I want to go back to normal categories and cannot figure out how. Please help!

]]> trent on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-127911 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:35:24 +0000 trent 127911@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Just an FYI to staff, but not all of my categories show up on the import page to change to tags and I would be happy to tell you which ones in testing if it helps out ;)

Trent

]]> swein on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124694 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:49:44 +0000 swein 124694@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm having a problem with the converter. I had a category, "school" that I wanted to convert to a tag. That tag already existed, and I got the message "Category is already a tag." It seemed odd to me you can't convert a category into an existing tag, but whatever. So I deleted the tag from all of my posts. I waited the annoying 12 hrs for the cloud to update, the tag is gone.

And yet, when I run the converter again, I STILL get the "Category is already a tag." warning. So the system still thinks it exists. Any ideas on how to fix this?

]]> ryan on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124528 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:25:43 +0000 ryan 124528@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Maybe we should remove the "Convert All Categories" button. I think people are clicking on that and then clicking the confirmation that follows when what they really want to do is selectively convert categories. I've been unable to make selective conversion accidentally convert all, so I think clicking the wrong button is what is happening.

If you already have a tag with the same name as one of your categories, you cannot convert that category. It will not show up in the list of categories to convert.

If you have categories that weren't properly converted to tags and no longer appear as categories, hit feedback and let us know.

We fixed some caching issues that were affecting the tag and category displays. If you still have problems with tags or categories not displaying as they should, hit feedback and we'll clear your caches.

]]> timethief on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124433 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:08:49 +0000 timethief 124433@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ cross references: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=16691
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=16684

]]> ninglun on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124358 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:53:30 +0000 ninglun 124358@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My converted categories appeared as tags in the tag cloud after 12-24 hours -- but at least they weren't lost.

]]> itsme on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124353 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:18:37 +0000 itsme 124353@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ well, I'm having a problem with this converter myself, though a different one. instead of converting just the selected categories, it converted all my categories! :(

]]> membracid on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124300 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:28:14 +0000 membracid 124300@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm having a problem with the converter, but a different one--it doesn't actually display all my categories to choose from, and it isn't reporting the number of posts in each category correctly, either.

So, I've held off on the implementation for now. Curious if anyone noticed similar issue?

(Mac OSX; Firefox 2.0.0.7)

]]> 1massing on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124297 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:25:01 +0000 1massing 124297@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My suspicion based on using the converter, on having separate issues with the tag display widget, and on discussions in the other forum is that the problem may be not with the converter but with the display widget. So far, the only fix I've found is removing the widget and reinstalling it - if this fails, reinstalling after several hours have passed (somewhere between 2 and 5?) seems to work. I'm also clearing cache and even cookies to make sure the problem isn't browser-side. I'll post back if I can narrow down the time window or discover anything else.

]]> timethief on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124253 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:59:31 +0000 timethief 124253@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @glad1at0re
Thanks for undertaking to come back and let the rest of the blogging community know how your issue gets resolved. :)

]]> glad1at0re on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124252 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:57:24 +0000 glad1at0re 124252@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No one has contacted me yet. I'll try to post in the thread you said. I'll let you know if we come to a solution.

Thx

]]> timethief on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124225 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:07:13 +0000 timethief 124225@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @glad1at0re
Well the comments are still open on Matt's post and no one else has posted a response to this thread so perhaps you may want to post about the difficulties that you are experiencing in that thread http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/10/08/category-to-tag-converter/

@farrel
I posted your details into Matt's announcement thread yesterday but the post I made that contained only what you posted here did not make it through "moderation".

Did staff contact you and remedy your problem?
If so can you help the other blogger posting above?

]]> glad1at0re on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-124223 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:58:36 +0000 glad1at0re 124223@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Same problem here, I havent checked all my posts. But I saw a couple of them were the categories were converted to tags but they also remained as categories under my post but not in my dashboard management.

]]> timethief on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123989 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:38:04 +0000 timethief 123989@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @farrell
BTW I copy and pasted your question into Matt's thread here http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/10/08/category-to-tag-converter/
so he will probably be getting back to you soon.

]]> timethief on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123978 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:14:36 +0000 timethief 123978@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Now posting the answer from support would be cool. Thanks so much for your kind offer. But if I were you I would be posting into Matt's thread. :)

]]> farrell on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123975 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:13:27 +0000 farrell 123975@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just sent my original post to support. I'll post any response, though, to help others on the forum.

]]> thesacredpath on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123974 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:12:44 +0000 thesacredpath 123974@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How cool is that? Know nothing about it but it's cool.

]]> timethief on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123973 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:12:22 +0000 timethief 123973@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh yes - thanks for the instructions. I just found the "surprise" announcement on my dashboard even though it's not a Friday ...lol

Oh dear me - this seems to be an example of a "surprise" feature which is unsupported by any documentation. http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/10/08/category-to-tag-converter/

And at this point it would appear that you and Matt know more about it than we forum volunteers do so why don't you post your question into his thread? :)

]]> farrell on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123972 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:10:41 +0000 farrell 123972@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Timethief, if you go into your dashboard under Manage, then Import, you will see there has been added a category-to-tag converter.

It's a new feature on wordpress.com.

If you go to the wordpress.com homepage and look under news, there's a post all about it.

]]> timethief on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123969 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:07:11 +0000 timethief 123969@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ /nod to judy
What announcement by Matt?
Where is the link please?

]]> farrell on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123968 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:05:18 +0000 farrell 123968@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, I'm in the right place.

The category-to-tag converter was recently announced by Matt. It's found under manage, import and can be used to convert categories to tags to take advantage of the new tagging feature.

Blog URL is http://farrellkramer.net which is my own domain on wordpress.com.

]]> judyb12 on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123966 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:01:29 +0000 judyb12 123966@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ the category-to-tag converter? What's that?

Is you blog hosted at wordpress.com? If not, you're in the wrong place. See the Read Me First post at the head of the forum.

]]> farrell on "Problem with Category-Tag Converter" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/problem-with-category-tag-converter#post-123962 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:56:07 +0000 farrell 123962@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I ran the category-to-tag converter and had some problems.

-Most of my tags did not make it into the tag cloud widget.
-About three of my categories were not converted to tags. However, they are also no longer on the category list within the converter.

Can anyone help here?

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