Changing the Category

  • Hello, am trying to change my wordpress category into a different category. As a website, it will say my category for Google is a blog. And when I go into my school’s computer it will say is blocked because this website is category as a blog. Is it possible to change the category into something else, like this is a website so it can trick the school’s computer making it say is a website instead of a blog.
    (This has nothing to do with categories inside the WP’s categories.)
    Thanks.

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  • Sounds like you need a web proxy like hidemyass.com, unless the school has proxies blocked, too.

    Not clear what you want. Who or what categorized your WordPress website as a blog? Just because it’s done by WordPress doesn’t mean it is a blog. Have you contacted your school’s system administrator or IT dep’t to see what can be done to resolve this?

    Thread Starter Chiuy

    (@chiuy)

    I have contacted my school. But the school’s computer has completely blocked off all blog, games, category, etc. websites. They only allow like regular website, such as Joomla. Joomla works fine, but WordPress counts as a blog so they think am posting stuff that isn’t for school. And usually school automatically check the website, and since wordpress CMS is a blog, it counts as the website as a blog and blocks it off.
    So am just wondering if it possible to make WordPress category as a regular website instead of a blog.

    Thread Starter Chiuy

    (@chiuy)

    Anyone?

    If I understand you correctly, the content filtering (firewall) management system at your school is preventing you from accessing your WordPress blog from school because the site filter categorizes your URL or it’s content as a “blog”, and your school does not allow access to sites categorized as “blogs” (as well as many other categories) correct?

    The short answer is no. The site filter at your school is doing it’s job according to the rules the IT department has provided it with. The correct path to take, (if this site is indeed important to, and an authorized part of your curriculum) is to explain what is happening to one of your administrators or teachers, and have them submit a request to your IT department to add your site URL to the site filter exception list. That will allow access to the site from school if it is actually warranted. If you pursue it any other way, you could find yourself trying to explain why you intentionally circumvented your school network safety measures. That’s a tough task. ??

    Good luck with it!

    It won’t make any difference. WordPress is just an application. It doesn’t determine whether a site is a blog or a “regular” web site. Nor is there any real difference between a WP blog and a WP site.
    Since it seems that your school has blocked all sites generated by WordPress, there’s not a lot you can do about it – other than appealling to their sanity and logic. Blocking sites based upon their generator/platform rather than their content is just plain stupid.

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