Always best to post what you found so others searching will benefit from your experience and increasing knowledge of WP. Options|writing|default category.
Actually, I didn’t find it. So. Yeah.
Anonymous
I don’t see a place to change the default category in Options | writing.
Am I simply overlooking it or is something wrong with my installation?
-g
It’s down at the bottom, labled “Usual Category”
TG
Try this:
http://example.com/wp-admin/options.php?option_group_id=all
The category number is referred to, so change it there.
Take care on that page !
Anonymous
In my experience the option under writing changes the default category ONLY for emailed posts. I had to go into mySQL and change the settings there, wish I’d known about that big options page then!
*shrug* Beats me…. I set mine to a cat other than “General” and everytime I make a post, it sets it to that cat for me.
TG
Ok… HOW do you do this?
My MT import created this “main” category. I have gone through over 300 posts moving everything to the first default category called “bink”. Please do not tell me that I have to move all of these posts back to “main” and rename “main” just to get rid of it. THERE HAS TO BE A MORE EFFICIENT WAY.
I have changed the default category under “Options” then “Writing” but this category “main” is not budging for anything. When I try to delete it I get this message, “Can’t delete the main category: this is the default one”. I have logged out of WP and logged back in, same error.
What to do?
Signed,
Very frustrated and disappointed with the failed capability to mass edit posts.
*I became friends with mysql. (the problem solver).*
FWIW, I edited the database toremove the automatic default category selection because I want users to be prompted to select categories. IOW, remind them that the default category does not apply to every post.
the SQL:
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = ‘666’, WHERE option_id =25 AND blog_id =0 AND CONVERT( option_name USING utf8 ) = ‘default_category’ LIMIT 1 ;
