2005
[CA] Extended Categories Manager
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A new Wordpress plugin from me, [CA] Extended Categories Manager. Upon converting this blog into a tagged-based blog system, I realize that I need to rename several categories and also merge couple categories as one category. Unfortunately, Wordpress doesn’t have feature to merge categories yet. There’s a plugin called Batch Categories outthere, which allow us to change several post category at once, but still I found it quite hard to use.
And that’s why I made this plugin :d
I used to use CA- prefix for my plugin name, I change it to [CA] from now on. Why? Because I think it’s cooler :p Old plugins will still use the old prefix.
The main purpose of Extended Categories Manager is to merge 2 categories as one (maybe give support to merge more than two categories in the future?). But I decided to extend its ability a little bit and give another extra features as well.
Features
- Merge categories.
- Quickly rename category and its fancy name
Requirement
Since this is a WordPress plugin, of course you need WordPress 
Currently tested under version 1.5.2.
Installation
1-Click Install: Not available yet.
Manual Install:
- Download the plugin (link below)
- Extract the file.
- Upload ca_extcat.php into your Plugins directory
- Activate the plugin from admin panel. Go to Manage page. A new sub-menu is now available, Extended Categories.
Usage
- Quick Edit Category
Choose the category you want to rename, enter the new name and the new fancy name (if necesarry). Hit Rename button. I’ll soon add the ability to automatically create the correct fancy name (depend on the new category name) upon renaming category. - Merge Categories
Select the 1st category, then the 2nd category. Hit Merge button. The 1st category will be merged into the 2nd category.
Note that after merging , the 1st category will be deleted from the Category list. Be careful.
Screenshot
![[CA] Extended Categories Manager](http://www.funponsel.net/images//extcat_1.jpg)
To Do
Future plan:
- Automatically create fancy name based on the new category name.
- Tidy categories – clean up categories that are not being used (no post assigned to that category).
- Option whether you want to delete the source category from the Category list or not after merging 2 categories.
- Maybe, and I said maybe, a better batch categories editing than Batch Category plugin.
Version History
v0.1 - August 30, 2005 [ download ]
- Initial release
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Hey, sounds neat. I’m looking for something with this kind of functionality, but I’m afraid to use it with my 2.3.x blog. Any plans to update? Or alternatives to suggest? Thanks!
Very nice, but no longer work…. I repeat the Alex message, tks