Web Guy

<p>Set a primary category for your posts… and then do stuff with it.</p>
<p><strong>Why would I want a primary category?</strong></p>
<p>Out of the box, WordPress allows you to assign multiple categories to a post. Unless you’re enforcing a strict one-category-per-post-only rule for your website, this can be a problem now for displaying the most important category for your respective posts, as opposed to WordPress automatically selecting it for you.</p>
<p>Let’s say that your blog is about animals, and you publish an article titled “Why Do Dogs Love Water and Cats Hate It?” with the categories: <em>Cats</em>, <em>Dogs</em>, and <em>Pets</em> assigned to it.</p>
<p>By default, anywhere that WordPress might display a single category to represent the post, it’s probably going to display <em>Cats</em> by default, but since the post is equally about both cats and dogs, maybe the more general <em>Pets</em> category would be more appropriate.</p>
<p>This plugin allows you to accomplish that, whether it’s for presentational, structural, organizational, SEO, or all of the above purposes.</p>
<p><strong>In what ways can I utilize a primary category?</strong></p>
<pre><code>[primary-cat]
</code></pre>
<p>In any creative way that you can imagine, but here are some examples I thought of:</p>
<ul>
<li>To present the main category that the post belongs to above its title (by adding <code><?php echo do_shortcode( '[primary-cat]' ); ?></code> in your theme code, child theme, or custom functions plugin), in some aesthetic way (which can be styled with CSS <code>.primary-cat</code>). Lots of blog, news, and magazine sites have this feature.</li>
<li>To have the appropriate slug in your post URLs if you’re using the custom <code>/%category%/%postname%/</code> permalink structure under <em>Settings > Permalinks</em>.</li>
<li>To have breadcrumbs (by using the shortcode <code>[primary-bread]</code>) on your site for user-friendliness (which can be styled with CSS <code>#breadcrumbs</code>), and can in turn, also improve SEO.</li>
</ul>


Primary Cat

Set a primary category for your posts... and then do stuff with it. [primary-cat]

Mobeen Abdullah

Sajjad Hussain

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CodexSpot

<p>WP Select Primary Category plugin allows you to select a primary category for different posts and custom post types.</p>
<h3>Background for this plugin</h3>
<p>Many publishers use categories as a means to logically organize their content. However, many pieces of content have more than one category. Sometimes it’s useful to designate a primary<br />
category for posts (and custom post types). On the front-end, the agency need the ability to query for posts (and custom post types) based on their primary categories.</p>
<h3>Automatic installation</h3>
<p>Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of this plugin, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.</p>
<p>In the search field type “WP Select Primary Category” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found this plugin, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.</p>
<h3>Manual installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download and unzip the WP Select Primary Category plugin</li>
<li>Upload the entire wp-select-primary-category/ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Activate the WP Select Primary Category plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<h3>How to use WP Select Primary Category?</h3>
<p>You can use WP Select Primary Category functionality under Categories panel in any of the hierarchical post type.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Select Primary Category is distributed under the terms of GNU GPL2.</p>
<h3>Future Updates</h3>
<ul>
<li>A Gutenberg Block to show in any post/page</li>
<li>Shortcode with different options to show on any page/post</li>
<li>Widget to show the posts based on primary category on different widget areas</li>
</ul>


WP Select Primary Category

WP Select Primary Category plugin allows you to select a primary category for different posts and custom post types.

Primary Cat vs WP Select Primary Category