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How to Show WordPress Posts With a Specific Taxonomy Term

We had an interesting question from a TaxoPress user: “Do your plugins provide any method for displaying a list of posts assigned to a category?” For example, if you have 10 posts with the term “Fruit”, this feature would display those 10 posts. This is possible with the default taxonomy archives but those are pages…

How to Choose Default Taxonomy Terms in WordPress

When you install a new WordPress site, there are two taxonomies (Categories and Tags) and one term (Uncategorized). Every WordPress post must have at least one category. By default, this required category is “Uncategorized”, but that name isn’t useful or relevant for most sites. So in this guide, we’ll show you how to replace “Uncategorized”….

What Characters Are Allowed in WordPress Taxonomy Terms?

WordPress Tags, Categories and other taxonomy terms are in important part of WordPress. They are the normal way to organize your WordPress content. However, terms are different from posts, media files, menus and other WordPress features. They are stored separately in the WordPress database. They have their own restrictions on what you can and can…

How to Merge Similar Taxonomy Terms in WordPress

If you are running a WordPress site for a long time, it’s easy to end up with a lot of taxonomy terms. And many of your WordPress Categories or Tags with have overlapping or duplicate meanings. For example, a website may have terms for “Blue”, “Aquamarine”, “Navy Blue”, and “Turquoise”. All of these words have…

Automatically Schedule WordPress Posts to Add a Category or Tag

Do you know how to automatically modify WordPress posts on a future date? This is not always easy. Let’s take the example of expiring posts on a future date. Most frequently, WordPress users rely on tedious manual methods to get rid of expired posts. They have to set themselves calendar reminders to log in and…

Automatically Create Tags for WordPress Posts with Video and Media

We had an interesting question from a TaxoPress user this week. They wanted to know if it was possible to automatically create tags for posts that contain videos and other media files. Yes, this is possible, TaxoPress can be an automatic tag generator. In this guide, we’ll show you how it’s done.