My blog categories have become unmanageable.
I had 31 pages of 20 cateories each. 620 categores in total! There were duplicates, small variations of names, things that should’ve been subcategories but weren’t…that sort of shit. It was a mess.
This here blog thingie currently has 29,306 posts. Now I could’ve gone through and fixed all the issues by opening each post manually and changing the categories that were categorized incorrectly or should’ve been in subcategories, but…
So what I ended up doing was going through and deleting categories wholesale. I kept the basics: Art, Blogging, Health, Hot Menz (with no subcategories at the moment, sorry—and to be honest they might not return), Humor, Music, Photography, Politics, Science, Tech, Teh St00pid, Work, and of course the default category, Uncategorized.
In my haste to clean things up, I deleted a few main categories that shouldn’t have been deleted: Art, Blogging, Health, Politics, and Science. I do have a backup of the website on the server, but because I’d have to restore the main database to get the categories back, it would wipe out any changes I’ve made to the entire blog since the snapshot was taken (not to mention all the weeding I’d just done). So…yeah. Not gonna happen.
Deleting the categories didn’t delete the original posts the tags were assigned to, so I didn’t lose anything as far as that’s concerned.
Apologies to anyone who used categories to find posts. I will repopulate those empty categories with new posts as time goes by.
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