Add New Category<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nNow, you have to make this created category the default category as discussed in subsequent steps. However, it is not necessary<\/strong> to create a new category, you can also set the default category to your old categories.<\/p>\n\n- Step 5.<\/strong> Go to the setting<\/strong> from the WordPress dashboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Step 6.<\/strong> Select writing<\/strong> inside the settings tab.<\/li>\n
- Step 7.<\/strong> In front of the default post category<\/strong>, select the desired category from the dropdown menu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Step 8.<\/strong> Scroll down the page and click on the Save<\/strong> changes<\/strong> button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
If you forget to designate a category for a post henceforth, it will automatically fall back to the default category you just created<\/strong>, rather than uncategorized.<\/p>\n<\/span>Delete Uncategorized Category Permanently<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nIf you have followed the above steps successfully, now it is time to get rid of<\/strong> uncategorized category forever. Since you’ve already replaced uncategorized with the default category, you can now delete it.<\/p>\n\n- Go to the dashboard of WordPress again.<\/li>\n
- Head to the Categories section<\/strong> as you have done in the first method.<\/li>\n
- Select Uncategorized<\/strong> from the available categories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Hover the mouse over the uncategorized and click on the delete<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n
- That’s it. You have permanently removed<\/strong> uncategorized category in WordPress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nIt is all about how to remove uncategorized category in WordPress<\/strong> by following simple steps. By default, all the WordPress posts are stored as uncategorized category if you do not specify them.<\/p>\nBeing default, it is almost impossible to remove this default category but by following the above guide you can easily remove uncategorized.<\/strong> You have to first remove uncategorized from the default category and then delete it permanently.<\/strong><\/p>\nI hope you like this article on how to remove uncategorized category in WordPress and are able to remove uncategorized ones from WordPress. Say permanently goodbye<\/strong> to uncategorized and save your posts to store there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By default, all WordPress posts are set to the ‘uncategorized‘ category but do you know how to remove uncategorized category in WordPress. In one way or another, uncategorized categories negatively impact the navigation and search engine optimization (SEO) of a website. The uncategorized category renders to nothing; it is a default WordPress category and if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[2496,2500,2499,2490,2502,2505,2504,2491,2494,2503,2501,2495,2497,2492,2498,2493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}