WordPress Default Category Plugin

Default Category is a a helpful workflow tool:

• Enforce editorial standards for posts

• A quick reference for content editors that aren’t regular contributors

• Each user can have their own set of default categories

• Site-wide categories will be applied if a user has not specified their own default categories

Multisite

Default Category is also multisite compatible as it has been designed for a multisite environment.

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

1. 

   Animated demo of functionality.

2. 

   User profile settings.

WordPress already has a setting to do this

By default, WordPress only allows a global default category. WordPress Default Category allows multiple categories to be selected based on user or site-wide settings.

What if a user profile doesn’t specify any default categories?

Any new post from the user will inherit the categories selected in the WordPress Default Category settings page.

Does this plug-in work for custom post types?

It’s designed for the default post type. Maybe in the future.

2.0

• Added user-level category support

1.0

• Approved for listing on WordPress.org

0.9

• Initial working version