If you have running a WooCommerce store or a blog website on WordPress platform, then there’s a possibility that you have created too many categories and tags as a beginner with an urge to spread your words to a greater extent. Now you seek a better guide and want to merge multiple categories and tags into a new single category or tag.
Yes, you can merge multiple categories and tags into a new single category or tag. You can merge them to reduce and improve navigation.
Why do people need to merge categories or tags?
When starting a new WordPress blog or website, you are not aware of how to use categories and tags properly. After sometimes, you realized that you have created too many categories or tags. Now you don’t have enough time to publish under all of these.
There are many ways of merging multiple categories and products. Either you can edit each and every post for which, you want to change the category or tags or you can use a WordPress plugin.
If you running a blog site on WordPress and you have many posts then the manual method can be quite time consuming. So go with a WordPress plugin. WordPress Term Merger is the best plugin to merge multiple posts and products.
WordPress Term Merger
WordPress Term Merger merges multiple terms (categories, tags, custom categories, custom tags) into one term (category, tag, custom category, custom tag). All posts or products of merging terms move into one term.
How to Merge Categories?
To merge multiple categories, you need to perform a few steps. Go to tools >> Term Merger, and you will see the list of post types. Select post type that may be posts or products. Select the categories to option from the taxonomy box. Select, merge option from the action to perform box. Select the terms to be merge. Select the terms to merge in. Click on the submit button, and the progress report will generate that show merging steps.
How to Set Parent Category?
WordPress Term Merger allows you to create a new WordPress category to set as a parent or merger category. To set the parent category, you have to select post type that may be posts or products. Select set parent option from actions to perform box. Select the child terms, and select a parent term. Click on the submit button to perform actions, and the progress report will generate that show set parent steps.
How to Merge Tags?
Go to tools >> Term Merger, and you will see the list of post types. Select post type that may be posts or products. Select the tags option from the taxonomy box. Select the merge option from the action to perform box.
Select the terms to merge. Select the term to merge in. Click on the submit button, and the progress report will generate that show merging steps.
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