Rename default category from uncategorized to general or similar.

[peterwilsoncc]

In English language versions of WordPress, the default category is named "Uncategorized" (or "Uncategorised" English variants outside of North America).

As categorising something as uncategorised is a bit of a misnomer, I think it would be good to rename the default category as "General" or similar.

Based on a quick ​Google search, renaming the default category to General is relatively common.

Based on another ​Google search, it also appears to be relatively common that WordPress users get stuck with the old category/uncategorized URL for the renamed category, presumably for SEO purposes.

While existing WP installs would be stuck with content categorised as uncategorised, I think it would be an improvement to rename the default for new installs.

[westonruter]

Another idea for the category name: "Miscellaneous".

It's kinda funny for there to be a "Uncategorized" category when this is actually a lie because a post with it is categorized.

[sabernhardt]

I knew I had just seen this suggestion somewhere :)

• @krogsgard mentioned it as part of #34116.
• @knutsp suggested giving users a way to change the category name on an onboarding screen for new installations in comment:2:ticket:60001.

This ticket could change the default name and slug for new sites (even within old networks). I like the idea of also giving administrators a simple way to change the slug on existing sites and redirect the URLs permanently, but that probably is too much.