Title: Combining categories
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Combining categories

 *  [timelord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelord/)
 * (@timelord)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-categories/)
 * I started off my blog with way too many categories, which was nice to sort things
   as specifically as possible, but now I want to reduce the amount of categories
   I have. I don’t want everything to go back to general after having categories
   deleted or changed around. Is there any way to combine two categories into one,
   or to merge categories, or something like that? If not, this would be an ideal
   feature to see soon. Thanks!

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-categories/#post-236950)
 * I hope this still works cuz I love it. It’s called Batch Categories:
 * [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/07/13/batch-categories-09/](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/07/13/batch-categories-09/)
 * IT IS NOT A PLUGIN.
 * It is an addon. Follow the instructions and you initiate it by typing to the 
   address in your browser like example.com/wp-admin/batch-categories.php or whatever
   you want to call it.
 * It will allow you to sort and edit all your posts and their categories. I love
   it and you can find out more about it by searching the forum for “batch categories”.
 *  Thread Starter [timelord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelord/)
 * (@timelord)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-categories/#post-237323)
 * I’m afraid it doesn’t look like it works. It spits me to a blank page. Any other
   suggestions?
 *  Thread Starter [timelord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelord/)
 * (@timelord)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-categories/#post-237549)
 * I’m sorry to press this further but it is becoming a bit of an issue. Is there
   some kind of mass category editor I can use? I have already deleted the categories
   I don’t want and dumped the posts into “General.” A nice way to change a bunch
   of these at a time would be really great.

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## Tags

 * [batch categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/batch-categories/)
 * [combine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/combine/)
 * [Merge](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/merge/)

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 * Last reply from: [timelord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelord/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combining-categories/#post-237549)
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