Remove ‘Uncategorized’ and more nastiness!

  • Resolved martianrobot

    (@martianrobot)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    Hi. I’m setting up a site for a work project using WordPress as my CMS.

    Basically it’s 3 static About pages and one News & Events page, but the core of it is 10 Group pages. These are individual journals (I believe they are called ‘blogs’ in these here parts, no?) that are actually WordPress categories.

    I’ve set up logins for 10 users who are group co-ordinators, and using the handy ‘Bind-user-to-category’ plugin I’ve made it so they can only post to their respective group journal. I’ve also (with my basic PHP knowledge) hacked up an old theme I liked, even fixing a few bugs and getting Widgets to work with it. Feeling quite pleasd with myself so far.

    However, I now need to do something a bit dirty. For obvious reasons I want to basically remove and/or hide the Uncategorized category from the Categories sidebar menu (which I’ve renamed Groups).

    Also, as the News & Events is effectively another journal category, it’s going to sit quite uncomfortably in the Groups section. I would ideally like to have it as part of the About, or else standing out on it’s own.

    Any ideas how I might achieve this?

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  • I don’t know if I understand you here, but do you just want to delete Uncategorized? If you want to do that, all you have to do is set another category as the default in the settings area and then go back and delete the category through the manage categories tab.

    Thread Starter martianrobot

    (@martianrobot)

    Thanks nick

    I’ve also just discovered that if you don’t have a posting that is uncategorized, the Uncategorized item doesn’t show up on the side bar! A bit obvious really, but I only found out after deleting all my test data (whilst trying to sort out another issue, that of completely disabling comments and removing any references to comments, including ‘Comments Off’)

    Still need to find a way of moving the ‘News’ journal out of the categories/groups heading.

    I’m gradually getting the hang of this software and on the way to getting it working exactly how I want it to after only about 12 hours of messing about… it’s taken my colleague almost 12 months to get close to want we were after using Drupal, and that site is still a mess.

    Thread Starter martianrobot

    (@martianrobot)

    Okay, the answer was staring me right in the face.

    Seeing as my site will have a set number of categories that users can’t change or add to, I could just hard code the links into the sidebar myself – that way I can organise them however I want. Obvious really.

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