Deleted catagory parent by accident – how to re-link ?

  • Resolved fionaodoherty

    (@fionaodoherty)


    13 years, 12 months ago

    Stupidly while I was getting rid of unecessary catagories, WP updated the list and I stupidly hit delete on one of my catagory parent. SHOP !! I’m rightly stuffed. Help! i’m running such and old version of WP (yes am updating next week). I need to get the parent link back into my catagories list. Please, please, please hlep

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 12 months ago

    I think THIS old plugin may help you – http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories

    Thread Starter fionaodoherty

    (@fionaodoherty)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks

    OK so what do I do with the plug. . sorry you’ll really have to walk me though this one, I’ve had such a nightmare I’m really, really scared to do anything in case it brings it all crashing down ?? Step by step if that isn’t too much hassle. I promise I’ll go to Codex school!

    Thread Starter fionaodoherty

    (@fionaodoherty)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    Oh and the file appears to have been deleted ! Am I up the creek ? Surly there’s a way of creating a new parent catagory and linking it to the header ?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 12 months ago

    That plugin will help you edit multiple posts to put them back into the category but as to re-creating the category … Just make a new one. I suspect your theme auto populates the header with the existing categories. If you’ve made one and it’s NOT showing up, try adding a post to that category and see if that works. IIRC empty categories are omitted.

    If THAT doesn’t work, you’ll have to go into your theme files and see if the header calls the categories specifically.

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