jkalawe

<p>Default Category is a a helpful workflow tool:</p>
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<p>Enforce editorial standards for posts</p>
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<p>A quick reference for content editors that aren’t regular contributors</p>
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<p>Each user can have their own set of default categories</p>
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<p>Site-wide categories will be applied if a user has not specified their own default categories</p>
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<h4>Multisite</h4>
<p>Default Category is also multisite compatible as it has been designed for a multisite environment.</p>


WordPress Default Category

Auto select categories for new posts based on user or site-wide settings.

erwinwolff

<p>With editorial guidelines you can show a quick and small box next to the edit screens of both the page and post page what the editorial guidelines are.</p>
<p>The contents of the editorial guidelines box are, of course, fully editable. This will be more usable as your WordPress activity grows and more contributors are added.</p>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>


Editorial Guidelines

With editorial guidelines you can show a quick and small box next to the edit screens of both the page and post page.

WordPress Default Category vs Editorial Guidelines