Title: Default category problems
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Default category problems

 *  Resolved [mircx93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mircx93/)
 * (@mircx93)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/defaul-category-problems/)
 * Before this problem i was using “uncategorized” as deafaul category and the authors
   was restricted to use only two categories “Green” and “Yellow” with the plugin“
   Restrict Author Posting”.
    So authors that didn’t select a category automatically
   post with “uncategorized”.
 * Now i have done different changes in the site and when an author doesn’t select
   a category worpress choose randomly “Yellow” or “Green”.
    Why? I changed the 
   name of “uncategorized” to “*”. the problem is caused by this change?

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 *  [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/)
 * (@trisham)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/defaul-category-problems/#post-7395195)
 * IF an author doesn’t select a category, there MUST be a default one used – you
   cannot have ‘no’ category.
 * SO what do you want your default category to be if an author doesn’t choose one?
 * Once you decide that, go to Settings>Writing and in the dropdown shown select
   which category you want to be the default one if none is selected by the Author.
 * Also, for the record I would suggest changing ‘*’ back to uncategorized.
 *  Thread Starter [mircx93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mircx93/)
 * (@mircx93)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/defaul-category-problems/#post-7395247)
 * Ok, thanks for the reply
 * I thought that wordpress put automatically “uncategorized” even if the category“
   uncategorized” is not avaible for the author.

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 * [default](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/default/)
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 * Last reply from: [mircx93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mircx93/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/defaul-category-problems/#post-7395247)
 * Status: resolved

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