How to remove the “uncategorized” category from wordpress

Posted by admin | Posted on 16-06-2010

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When you first install wordpress the category “uncategorized” is created and defined as the default for all of your posts. However, there after your wordpress is configured and you have made some posts, you probably will wish to remove this category, specially if you show your categories in your website menu.

So, go to your wordpress administration page, selected the “Settings” menu and go to the option “Writing”. Now change your default “Default Post Category” for any other category you have created.



Now, go to menu “Posts” and select “Categories”. At this moment, because you have changed your default category, you will be able to remove the “Uncategorized” category.



And that’s it, click on delete and you no longer will have this category :)

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First things first: How to install google analytics into the blogger and wordpress

Posted by admin | Posted on 07-06-2010

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Hi,

Since the main objective of this blog is to share what I’ve learnt or know about computing, software, tools, etc, nothing more obvious than starting describing how to setup some useful features for a blog.

Well, the first good tip after creating a blog, is to create a google analytics account to track your visitors. That is what I will describe in this post. Thus, go to www.google.com/analytics and create your account by clicking on Sign Up Now.


If you have a google account, just use your credentials, otherwise you will need to create one.

The setup process is very straightforward, just follow the instructions and fill the required fields using the information from your website.


At the end of the initial wizard, you will see a piece of javascript code that you have to insert into your website in order to allow google analytics to track your visitors.

Now, if you are a Blogger user, read the Blogger instructions, and if you are a WordPress user, scroll to WordPress instructions.

Blogger setup intructions

Copy the javascript code that you got from the end of google analytics account setup and go to the blogger website, and lets insert setup analytics for your blog. Go to your blogger account, click in “Layout” tab and click in “Edit HTML” option. At this point you will see a big text area that shows the html code of your blog. Scroll to the end of this text area and paste the code just before the tag.


Save your template, and now your blog has google analytics support. Simple, isn’t it !?

Worpress Instructions

If you are a wordpress user, the easiest way to setup google analytics into your blog is by installing a plugin. In my opinion, there are two great plugins: Ultimate Google Analytics and Google Analyticator

The installation for both is very simple. Go to the wordpress administration, select Plugins and Add New. Search for plugin’s name and select install. After installation is complete, activate the plugin.

The last step is to insert your analytics tracking code into the plugin settings. Go to analytics website and get your code analytics tracking code in your profile.


Now go to your plugin settings, insert your tracking code and save. Now your site is ready !

Please feel free to comment if you have any further questions.

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