Looking to grab my category ID's can't seem to find them in the admin panel, help please.
2.5 Category ID's? (7 posts)
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iamglenn
Posted 4 years ago # -
Urm. Manage >> Categories.
Hover over which ever category and you'll see the ID in the URL.
The only reason I can't fanthom with 2.5 categories is that the ID took a big jump. I created a new category and it gave it the number 90. =|
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Michael Fields
Posted 4 years ago #iamglenn,
You could also install this plugin which puts the ID's back in the admin display:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25/fantasycrusader,
The jump in the ID's for categories is due to the newish taxonomy system. Both Categories and Tags are stored in the same table in the database (wp_terms). Lets say, you add a new category who's ID ends up being "8". Then you ad a new post with 10 new tags for it. Then you add another new category. The ID for the second category will be "19" instead of the expected "9". -
unions8
Posted 4 years ago #And is it possible to change the Category IDs? Thanx,
Stepaan -
Posted 4 years ago #unions8,
Why would you want to change a category's ID#? This can cause ripple effects throughout your blog that will be hard to debug. WordPress offers no tool to change the ID of a category, post or other database entry. It is (for all intensive purposes) unnecessary. -
Chanpory
Posted 4 years ago #mfields, it'd actually be useful to change the category ID number, because of the way multiple categories work with posts.
From my understanding, if a post is assigned more than one category, WordPress will assign the category with the lowest ID number as the primary category. Currently, there is no way to assign a primary category to a post, which is quite frustration.
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Bart van Poll
Posted 3 years ago #@Chanpory: Yes, this would indeed be very very helpful!
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