[wp-testers] Deleting Categories

[Chris Haynes]

I like the idea of having it only allow deletion if a category is empty.
What about an AJAX type edit, where if you mouse over, click and hold,
it allows you to rename the category?  Or even a "click" and "edit"
button, instead of delete?


On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:15:54 -0800, "Thomas Leavitt"
<thomas at thomasleavitt.org> said:
> 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
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