Title: Assign Categories
Author: Aswin Anand
Published: <strong>Septanm 5, 2012</strong>
Last modified: Novanm 21, 2014

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Assign Categories

 By [Aswin Anand](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aswinanand/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/assign-categories.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/assign-categories/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/assign-categories/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/assign-categories/#installation)
 * [Development](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/assign-categories/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-categories/)

## Description

With this plugin, assigning multiple categories to one or more posts is a
 breeze.
Pop the plugin’s PHP file to your wordpress plugin directory, activate it and click
on “Assign Categories” under the Manage menu. The page will show the list of available
categories, followed by the available blog posts. You can select the categories,
select the required posts and then click on “Assign Categories” at the bottom of
the page. Now, all your posts will be assigned the new categories.

Plugin Page: [http://www.aswinanand.com/2008/10/bulk-assign-categories-to-multiple-posts/](http://www.aswinanand.com/2008/10/bulk-assign-categories-to-multiple-posts/)

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Assign Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Aswin Anand ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aswinanand/)

[Translate “Assign Categories” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/assign-categories)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/assign-categories/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/assign-categories/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/assign-categories/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/assign-categories/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First release on the wordpress plugins website

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/assign-categories/)
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[category](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)
   [tag](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/)[tags](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tags/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/assign-categories/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-categories/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-categories/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-categories/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-categories/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/assign-categories/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Aswin Anand ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aswinanand/)

## Support

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