Title: Delete Category
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Delete Category

 *  Resolved [skrp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrp/)
 * (@skrp)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-category/)
 * I use the Kubrick theme and want to delete the uncategorized category. However,
   it won’t let me delete it becuase it is the default category.
 * I went to Options>Writing and changed the default post category, however, this
   still dosen’t work.
 * How do I go about changing the default category?

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 *  [estjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estjohn/)
 * (@estjohn)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-category/#post-274200)
 * rename it to another category and move all the posts to the newly renamed one.
   Then you get rid of it that way… thats how I had to do it.
 * IE.. I had 2 categories – about and uncategorized. I wanted to get rid of uncategorized,
   but it wouldnt let me. I moved all of the about posts to uncategorized, deteled
   the empty about and renmaed uncategorized to about.
 *  Thread Starter [skrp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrp/)
 * (@skrp)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-category/#post-274202)
 * Ok, was the path I thought of but I end up at the same place nonetheless.
 * Thanks

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [skrp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrp/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-category/#post-274202)
 * Status: resolved

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