Take a look at your website categories. If you see that your Categories are behaving like Tags, and vice versa, the thought that you might have to change them can be daunting when you have many posts.

There is a solution.

Go to your Category page. If you have more than 5 Categories, you may want to consider changing them to Tags.

Below your list of categories, you will find this:

To change your Categories to Tags, click on the category_to_tag_converter link.

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FrankB-1 Premium Plus
Very useful training, Thanks Rudy!
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1Rudy1 Premium
Thanks, Frank!

Rudy
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StephenThiam Premium
Excellent sharing. It is much easier to do than I manually do post by post. Thank you.
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1Rudy1 Premium
Thanks Stephen!
Oh yes, much easier to do all together!

Rudy
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BrendaMZ Premium Plus
Cool. Didn’t know this. Saving this for future reference.
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1Rudy1 Premium
Sounds good!

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Dhind1 Premium Plus
I asked Jay about this and he said that if you delete categories, it may cause some 404 errors, so you would need to create some redirects.

magistudios
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2 days ago
@Dhind1You can remove categories if you want, but be aware that it would create some 404 errors. So you would need to create some redirects.

If I can use the tag to category convertor, would the same problem exist? I would still in effect be deleting the category.

Alex
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1Rudy1 Premium
With the converter, you aren't deleting the categories, you are switching them.

Whether or not your posts are tagged, or have categories attached will determine whether the page in Not Found. Thats an easy fix by adding a category to the page.

Your content is still available, not missing.

Some of my posts were not tagged and the page appeared as Not Found, until I added a relative category, saved it and the page appeared under the category.

Rudy
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Dhind1 Premium Plus
Thanks, that makes sense.

Alex
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LMH1968 Premium
Very useful information to know Rudy :-)
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1Rudy1 Premium
Youre welcome, Lisa!

Rudy
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