Batch Categories Wordpress Plugin

As you will have by now realised, I just imported my old Significant Figures Blogspot blog into a Wordpress install on this domain. I used the new functionality of the latest Blogger system to point the old account at this domain (it works as a 301 redirect so PR will eventually follow the import from the old blog).

Unfortunately, all the posts, just a few dozen at the moment, admittedly, were pulled in as “uncategorized”. So, I gave the Batch Categories Wordpress plugin a quick try to see if I could batch edit all these uncategorized posts and give them new slots on the ScienceText site. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get it to work. It may have been something to do with a faulty Wordpress install, rather than the plugin itself, I don’t know.

Anyway, I suddenly recalled that deleting a category would make all posts with that label revert to the default category, therein would lie my answer.

So, I created a new category with the name Significant Figures for all those imported posts, and made it the default. I then deleted the so-called “uncategorized”. Almost instantaneously all the Sig Fig posts fell into line in the new default category, which is what I’d wanted.

Job done.