WordPress: How To Change Your Default Blog Post Category

By default when you create a new blog post in WordPress it assigns it to the UNCATEGORIZED category.

In most cases, this isn’t the category you want it in.

It also looks a bit sloppy.

Here’s how to change the default category to a category of your choosing.

• Login to WordPress as an Administrator
• From the WordPress Dashboard select Settings
• Select Writing
• Select Default Post Category
• Save your changes using the SAVE CHANGES button at the bottom of the page.
• Done

Now, going forward, all your new blog posts will be by default set to the category you selected.

Here’s what it looks like.