Title: Inputting correct post category
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Inputting correct post category

 *  Resolved [Daniella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellaj/)
 * (@ellaj)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inputting-correct-post-category/)
 * Hi,
    I’m able to upload the csv file but the csv_post_category is not inputting
   correctly. In the ‘csv importer’ I click to input as drafts and then I click 
   the proper post category (Artists in 2011). No matter what I do, the post category
   goes straight to cat-1 which is Artists in 2010. Any ideas on how to get this
   to work? Thank you!

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 *  Thread Starter [Daniella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellaj/)
 * (@ellaj)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inputting-correct-post-category/#post-2094954)
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 *  Thread Starter [Daniella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellaj/)
 * (@ellaj)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inputting-correct-post-category/#post-2094955)
 * I tried the same thing and instead of reverting to 2010, the import is creating
   a subcategory. So in the csv_post_categories column I have Artists in 2011. I
   select the proper category from the “Organize into category” dropdown and then
   it creates the same-title subcategory on import.
    If I select the correct category
   in the dropdown and leave the column blank or omit it altogether, the category
   reverts to Artists in 2010. Please help.
 *  Thread Starter [Daniella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellaj/)
 * (@ellaj)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inputting-correct-post-category/#post-2094960)
 * I used the category number and it worked.

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