Title: Assigning categories to posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Assigning categories to posts

 *  [alda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alda/)
 * (@alda)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-categories-to-posts/)
 * Hi,
 * I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to assign categories to old posts (or
   vice-versa). I recently migrated from Blogger which allowed me to go back through
   my old posts and simply assign categories to selected ones. Is there any such
   thing available in WordPress?
 * Incidentally, I have tried to install [this plugin](http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories),
   but get a fatal error when I try to activate it.
 * Thanks.
    Alda [http://www.icelandweatherreport.com](http://www.icelandweatherreport.com)

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-categories-to-posts/#post-757935)
 * Well, you should be able to go to the Manage Posts page, navigate to the old 
   pre-WP posts and click Edit and assign them a category just as you would if you
   were typing a new post. My blog has been around since 2002 and it is an alamgamation
   of Blogger, Greymatter (don’t laugh) and finally WordPress. I was able to go 
   back and assign categories to all my old posts with ease. You shouldn’t need 
   a plugin for that. Granted, it’s time consuming, if you have a lot of posts, 
   but it can be done.
 *  Thread Starter [alda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alda/)
 * (@alda)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-categories-to-posts/#post-758087)
 * Yes, well, the time-consuming part is what I hoped to avoid. :-/
 * I’ve got 800+ posts to wade through. Going the manual route might take me years!
 *  [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/)
 * (@ivovic)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-categories-to-posts/#post-758093)
 * assuming a generous 30 seconds per post, doing it that way would take you about
   seven hours. You posted this thread about a day ago. You could have been done
   by now 😉
 * Seriously, there are plugins which let you mass-modify posts, trawl through the
   plugin repository here on this site.
 *  Thread Starter [alda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alda/)
 * (@alda)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-categories-to-posts/#post-758100)
 * Ok ok, if you want to get all literal about it! I’d still have to allow for recovery
   times for the tendons in my wrist, though. 😉
 * I’ll check out the plugins. Thanks for the tip.
 * Alda
    [http://www.icelandweatherreport.com](http://www.icelandweatherreport.com)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assigning-categories-to-posts/#post-758100)
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