Bulk assign/edit Primary Category

  • Resolved Kalacta

    (@rocafresh)


    1 year, 5 months ago

    This has been an issue for years apparently, gathered from my online research in this topic.

    The Primary Category does not show or there is no output on frontend when it is a child/subcategory. For example, if I use the %%primary_category%% variable in meta description, there is no output if it is a subcategory. How can I bulk edit all assigned subcategories as primary categories without having to individually edit 1000s of posts?

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @rocafresh

    Using %%primary_category%% is replaced with the primary category of the post/page. Using that snippet variable works if you make a sub-category the primary category for a post.

    The bulk editor in WordPress > Yoast SEO > Tools allows you to edit the title and meta description in bulk.

    Thread Starter Kalacta

    (@rocafresh)

    This has not answered my question at all. How can I BULK ASSIGN PRIMARY CATEGORY to THOUSANDS of unassigned posts in ONE GO? The bulk editor in Yoast works by editing one post at a time….

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    There’s no feature in the Yoast SEO plugin to bulk assign primary category to thousands of unassigned posts in one go.

    Thread Starter Kalacta

    (@rocafresh)

    Yes, apparently so. Well aware of that. Maybe let me try again:

    The sub category is NOT outputted in the meta description on my site when I set it as a Primary Category.

    A similar issue was reported here (nearly 3 years ago) – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/primary-category-not-shown-in-page-title/

    There is a bug am sure that disables outputting the Primary Category WHEN a subcategory is selected as the the primary.

    Please look more into this rather than giving generic responses.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Kalacta

    (@rocafresh)

    Marked as resolved but it’s not. I’ve been using Yoast Premium for well over 5 years. This type of support is not good enough.

    Will have to move if this bug isn’t addressed – Rank Math for instance has this exact issue covered and in fact highlighted….

    Hello could you point me out how to do it with rank math ? I’m in the exact same situation and looking for a solution, if that means going to rank math im ok with that as it needs to be done

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