Mark Jaquith

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<li>Check a category.</li>
<li>Uncheck “Uncategorized”.</li>
<li>Mutter “stupid ‘Uncategorized'” under your breath.</li>
</ol>
Sound familiar? With this stupidly simple plugin, you just have to do the first step. When you check a category and the default category was the only thing checked before you clicked, it’ll uncheck the default category for you. Boom.

Categorized

Unchecks the default post category when you first select a non-default category

pantsonhead

Categories and Tags are tricky – sometimes they take a bit of experimentation to get right, and when we change the way we want to do things and we end up with a mess to clean up. This is when Taxonomy Toolbox can help.
This plugin provides the following tools to help manage your taxonomies:
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<li>Summarize current Taxonomies</li>
<li>Convert Tags to Categories</li>
<li>Convert Categories to Tags</li>
<li>Delete empty Tags or Categories</li>
<li>Identify and Merge Tags/Categories that exist for the same term</li>
<li>Force a recount of objects associated for all taxonomies</li>
<li>Delete any orphaned data</li>
</ul>

Taxonomy Toolbox

A bit premature for a through review, but when I realized my old stand by Term Management Tools didn't provide for bulk converting tags to categories I was happy to find this... and it worked!



Worked great converting tags to categories

Worked for me to quickly see which custom taxonomies were configured on the site.

Worked for me to see which custom taxonomies were configured on the site.

Taxonomy Toolbox allows you to quickly review and update your Categories, Tags and other taxonomies.

Categorized vs Taxonomy Toolbox