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How to Safely Merge Categories in WordPress Using PHP (Free Script)
As a WordPress site grows, category structures can easily become bloated, redundant, or outdated. Reorganizing your taxonomy manually through the WordPress admin dashboard works fine for a handful of posts, but if you need to merge hundreds - or thousands - of articles from one category into another, doing it manually is a slow, tedious chore.
While plugins exist for taxonomy management, adding extra
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Plugins are often unnecessary overhead for simple bulk database tasks. If you need to assign existing WordPress posts to a new category based on an existing tag, installing a bulk-edit plugin is overkill.
You can handle it directly with a short PHP script using WordPress core functions - then delete it once the task is complete.
This keeps your site lightweight and avoids adding permanent dependencies for one-time administrative work. Read on for how to do it quickly and easily
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