Dane Morgan

<p>Hextwo Category Sanity</p>
<p>A simple plugin to prevent posting with no category, Uncategorized category, or more than one category selected.</p>
<h3>What it does.</h3>
<ol>
<li>If you forget to check a category box and try to publish your post, it will pop an alert telling you the you must select a category before you publish.</li>
<li>If you have previously selected the uncategorized category and try to publish, it will pop an alert telling you that you mus uncheck the Uncategorized category.</li>
<li>If you have two or more categories selected and try to publish it will pop an alert and tell you that you may only select one category.</li>
</ol>
<p>If the current post type does not support the built-in WordPress category taxonomy, the script bails and does nothing. This will only affect posts with Category support.</p>
<p>In the future I might add a selection tool to allow specifying a number of categories that are allowable, but for now, I think one is a good starting point.</p>


HEXTWO Category Sanity

Make sure you have set your category before you publish your posts.

gnowland

<p>Automatically and visibly deselect the “Uncategorized” category (or your custom default post category) when another category is selected, and select it when no other categories are selected. Supports the WordPress 5.0+ Block Editor (Gutenberg).</p>
<h4>Purpose</h4>
<p>To prevent the Uncategorized category from being attached to posts that are categorized, of course.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“When you author a post in WordPress, it will automatically assign the post to your default category. This is determined by navigating to Settings > Writing and looking for Default Post Category. You can set the default category to a different one of your choosing, and you can even rename ‘Uncategorized’ to something that makes more sense for your site.</p>
<p>The challenge with the WordPress default category is that authors will frequently draft their articles and choose the appropriate category at the end of the process. All too often, they forget to uncheck the default category, so you have lots of mis-categorized, or double-categorized posts. In fact, you can see thousands of WordPress sites out there that have everything categorized under ‘Uncategorized’, the default setting in WordPress.” (GeekWire, 2015)</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Support is handled in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-deselect-uncategorized" rel="ugc">WordPress forums</a>. Please note that support is limited and does not cover any custom implementation of the plugin. Before posting a question, please confirm that the problem still exists with a default theme and with all other plugins disabled.</p>
<p>Please report any bugs, errors, warnings, or code issues on <a href="https://github.com/gnowland/auto-deselect-uncategorized/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Video Demonstration</h3>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Demo: Auto Deselect Uncategorized WordPress Plugin" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LDZCqY7H-pQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>


Auto-Deselect Uncategorized

Deselect "Uncategorized" (or your chosen "default category") when others are selected; re-select it when no others are.

HEXTWO Category Sanity vs Auto-Deselect Uncategorized