Wordpress Cleanup – Categories and Tags

by Dan

So this past weekend I decided that I had way too many categories and my tags were not correctly distributed or representative of all my posts.  After reaching about 350+ posts it has become a little bit of a bear to manage these two things in a bulk fashion.  So being a database kind of guy figured I would go directly against the database to just write some update statements to change this.  Well, the data model is not that easy to understand and I was not able to really decipher how the relations are kept.  So I looked in the direction of plugins for Wordpress.  Well luckily after a few tries I found a few things to help manage everything very effectively.

Bulk Merge/Rename Categories – This application allows you to merge and rename categories

Simple Tags – This is the killer app, this one allows you to bulk update your tags, delete tags, merge tags, duplicate tags, also it adds a new widget for tags that is more configurable and easier to use.  The bulk update tags feature is great because it is a super easy way to manage your tags on existing posts.

I also found a few plugins that are pretty helpful:

Extended Category Widget – This allows you to add things like counts next to your category list widget

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin -This adds a little section on your posts the relates back to previous posts, you can set and determine how it makes these cross references

WP-Cumulus – This adds a little flash 3D tag cloud which I have added to my website.  This is just kinda fun to play with

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