id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
11576,The future of the 'uncategorized' category,prettyboymp,,"Is there any plan for removing the 'Uncategorized' category, or at least removing its requirement?  Some users want the ability to only show the_category() when the post is part of a real category. Also, with the introduction of custom taxonomies in 2.9, not all hierarchical taxonomies will have a default term, so this flexibility needs to be introduced anyway.  

I'm curious why the default category was introduced in the first place?  Was it solely for permalink handling?

If attachment:ticket:10122:hierarchical_metaboxes-2.patch is accepted (specifically handling hierarchical taxonomies as int) the following just needs to be added above the checkbox list to allow deselecting of all terms from the taxonomy:

{{{
<input type=""hidden"" name=""tax_input[<?php echo $taxonomy?>]"" value="""" /> 
}}}
",enhancement,assigned,normal,Future Release,Taxonomy,2.9,normal,,needs-patch,prettyboymp sirzooro kevinB mikeschinkel@…