{"id":415,"date":"2023-02-28T05:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/?p=415"},"modified":"2023-02-28T05:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:21:50","slug":"wordpress-delete-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wordpress-delete-category\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#8211; Delete Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we will study about how to\u00a0<strong>Delete Categories<\/strong>\u00a0in WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Following are the simple steps to delete categories in WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (1)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 Click on\u00a0<strong>Posts \u2192 Categories<\/strong>\u00a0in WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.trustedhosting.in\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/176_Delete.png\" alt=\"WordPress delete category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"929\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step (2)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2212 You can delete Category1 (Category1 was created in the chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress &#8211; Delete Category<\/a> . When the cursor hovers on the Categories, a few options get displayed below the Category name. Click on\u00a0<strong>Delete<\/strong>\u00a0button as shown in the following screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.trustedhosting.in\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/177_Delete-1.png\" alt=\"WordPress delete category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you click on delete, you will get a pop message asking for confirmation to delete the particular category as shown in the following screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/manage.trustedhosting.in\/index.php?rp=\/images\/kb\/178_Delete-2.png\" alt=\"WordPress delete category\" width=\"1000\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can click on\u00a0<strong>OK<\/strong>\u00a0button and delete the category permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we will study about how to\u00a0Delete Categories\u00a0in WordPress. Following are the simple steps to delete categories in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-complete-tutorials","tag-wordpress-complete-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}