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In this video, I'm going to show you how
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you can choose a default category on
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your WordPress website. So, by choosing
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a default category, it means each and
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every time you don't specify a category
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to which that post belongs to, it will
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go to that default category or to that
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category that you set as default. It
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happens sometimes that you have
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published or you intend to publish a
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post but you forget to choose a suitable
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category under which that article or
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that post should belong. So if that's
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the case then let me show you how you
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can select that any post that you don't
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choose the category or will
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automatically be placed under a specific
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category. As you can see I have here
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quite a number of categories on my
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website and I'd like to go ahead and
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show you how you can choose a category
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or how you can change a previous
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category that you had chosen to another
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one. If you found this video helpful,
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I'll kindly request that you support me
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by liking the video and also by
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subscribing to my channel. All right,
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let's get into it. Now the first thing
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you need to do is to go and log into
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your dashboard and from your dashboard
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here go ahead and choose this option
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called settings. Go under settings and
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from settings go ahead and choose or
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click on writing. Now this will go ahead
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and open or give you the writing
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settings that you can have. Now first on
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the list is default post category. As
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you can see I set mine to travel. So it
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means if I fail to choose a category for
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any post, it will automatically be
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placed under travel. I like to go ahead
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and change this to change this. So to
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change or choose your category or your
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default category, go ahead and choose on
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this drop- down arrow. And this will
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list all the categories that you have on
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your website. For my case, I like to
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change this from travel. And any post
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that I forgot to specify its category
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should fall under featured or should
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automatically go to featured category.
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Once you have selected your own default
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post category for the rest you can leave
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as they are. For instance, leave the
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default post format to standard and the
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others as they are. Then go ahead and
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click on save changes and then okay. And
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the changes will be saved on your
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website. Now each and every time you
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publish any post and fail to choose or
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to select a category, it will go under
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featured. So that's how you select
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default post category on your WordPress
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website. If you have any other question,
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kindly let me know in the comment
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section. Otherwise, thanks for watching
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and let's meet in the next video.
