Title: Assign Missing Categories Author: Stephanie Leary Published: November 21, 2008 Last modified: December 15, 2014 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/assign-missing-categories.svg) # Assign Missing Categories By [Stephanie Leary](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sillybean/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/assign-missing-categories.1.2.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/assign-missing-categories/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/assign-missing-categories/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/assign-missing-categories/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/assign-missing-categories/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/) ## Description If you have converted categories to tags and are now left with a lot of posts that have no category assigned (that show up with ‘Uncategorized,’ unlinked, as the category under Posts), you can use this plugin to assign the default category to all those posts at once. ## Installation 1. Upload the files to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to Posts → Assign Missing Categories ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9189663685d13ff10e8a251edb3647d73da6c73e8fdd97e1a45d2b451fabdf78? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Still works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-149/)󠁿 [andrearufo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrearufo/) September 5, 2018 Simple but effective. Still works on my last version Wordpress. It’s not sofisticate and do his job. Obviously you must know what you are doing. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/943ebe816a5a9fedb2d4712da4a28e7c4635af17fe85c200014c63649f2d73d2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[worked as expected on wordpress network site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-as-expected-on-wordpress-network-site/)󠁿 [tgiokdi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tgiokdi/) April 30, 2017 worked as expected on wordpress network site ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d3d1a4d1a91c5d0d7d18ee7a5a5ee8d5fb8f464c621355af8d5a5d5f54521fde? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Amazing Work!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-work-22/)󠁿 [Anonymous User](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anonymized-14857447/) September 3, 2016 Solved my migration issues from FlatPress. No more uncategorised categories! Thank you Stephanie! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/951c367d56b8a1c104c8bf649b717b906aa330918bf23d98f3e41741c8b93097? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Amazing plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-433/)󠁿 [nicholaszen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nicholaszen/) September 3, 2016 Struggled for days to assign post (custom post type) without categories to a category. Just changed line 61 to my custom post type. But it worked perfectly! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9ae2856272a8a803627d14a349f4044349a55fc73c22a764e878e7a776170c39? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works great, thanks!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-thanks-13/)󠁿 [vaskarjewel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vaskarjewel/) September 3, 2016 Thanks for this great plugin! Easy to use and powerful. [ Read all 8 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Assign Missing Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Stephanie Leary ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sillybean/) [Translate “Assign Missing Categories” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/assign-missing-categories) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/assign-missing-categories/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/assign-missing-categories/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/assign-missing-categories/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/assign-missing-categories/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.2 * stop using deprecated junk * clean the term cache after assigning posts * localized strings (July 29, 2011) #### 1.1 * user capability check (August 3, 2009) #### 1.0 * first release (November 17, 2008) ## Meta * Version **1.2** * Last updated **11 years ago** * Active installations **20+** * WordPress version ** 2.3 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.1.42** * Tag * [categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/assign-missing-categories/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 8 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Stephanie Leary ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sillybean/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-missing-categories/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://sillybean.net/code/wordpress/assign-missing-categories/)