[wp-testers] Deleting Categories

[Steve Smith]

If too many issues arise from deleting, what about simply renaming?   
Full category manipulation is not what this area is really intended  
for, I would assume.

Steve Smith
www.orderedlist.com

On Nov 17, 2005, at 4:15 PM, Thomas Leavitt wrote:

> Why does this have to be the case?
>
> Why not just automatically re-assign all deleted items to a default
> category, or make them uncategorized, or let the user pick the  
> category
> to re-assign them to? None of these options would appear to be
> programatically complicated, unless I've missed something.
>
> Thomas
>
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 15:08 -0600, Andy Skelton wrote:
>> Yes, I thought about it. However, deleting a category involves
>> removing ALL of the related posts from that category. There could  
>> be a
>> js confirm dialog to warn the user of that danger.  Ideally the  
>> dialog
>> should inform the user of the number of posts in that category so the
>> decision is never made uninformed.
>>
>> Andy Skelton
>> http://andy.wordpress.com
>>
>> On 11/17/05, Chris Haynes <cphemail at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I apologize if this has been mentioned before.
>>>
>>> Has anyone thought about adding a small "delete" button under  
>>> categories
>>> in the Write interface?  A couple of times, in my hast to add a
>>> category, I've misspelled a word and would have liked to have  
>>> deleted it
>>> right THEN, rather than through an admin interface.
>>>
>>> -Ch
>>> --
>>>   Chris Haynes
>>>   cphemail at yahoo.com
>>>
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