Mark Jaquith

<ol>
<li>Check a category.</li>
<li>Uncheck “Uncategorized”.</li>
<li>Mutter “stupid ‘Uncategorized'” under your breath.</li>
</ol>
<p>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.</p>


Categorized

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

scribu

theMikeD

<p><em>Please note this plugin requires at least PHP 7.1.</em></p>
<p>If you need to reorganize your tags and categories, this plugin will make it easier for you. It adds three new options to the Bulk Actions dropdown on term management pages:</p>
<ul>
<li>Merge – combine two or more terms into one</li>
<li>Set Parent – set the parent for one or more terms (for hierarchical taxonomies)</li>
<li>Change Taxonomy – convert terms from one taxonomy to another</li>
</ul>
<p>It works with tags, categories and <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Taxonomies" rel="nofollow ugc">custom taxonomies</a>.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to the taxonomy page containing terms you want to modify. For example, for categories go to <code>WP-Admin <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Posts <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Categories</code>.</li>
<li>Select the terms you want to reorganize</li>
<li>Find the Bulk Actions dropdown, and select the task you’d like done.</li>
<li>Disco.</li>
</ol>
<h3>WPML</h3>
<p><a href="https://wpml.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>-translated terms are partially supported. Currently only the “Change Taxonomy” task is WPML-aware. If a term with translations is moved to a new taxonomy, its translations are moved as well, and the translation relationships are preserved.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Currently only the “Change Taxonomy” task is WPML-aware</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Work on the WPML component was sponsored by the <a href="https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rainforest Alliance</a>.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Limited support is handled in the forum created for this purpose (see the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/term-management-tools/" rel="ugc">support</a> tab on wp.org).</p>
<p>Find a problem? Fixes can be submitted on <a href="https://github.com/theMikeD/wp-term-management-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<h3>Upgrading from a previous version</h3>
<p>Use the upgrade link in the Dashboard (Dashboard <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Updates) to upgrade this plugin.</p>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>Initial version of this plugin was by <a href="http://scribu.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">scribu</a>, with contributions from others. See full code history on <a href="https://github.com/theMikeD/wp-term-management-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>


Term Management Tools

Excellent work! It saved me hours from having to write a bunch of SQL scripts!

Very Helpful

Allows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk. WPML is supported when changing taxonomies.

Categorized vs Term Management Tools