Better location for the Categories to Tags converter

[kdmurray]

Tonight I spent a while doing some work converting categories to tags in WordPress. After looking through the 2.7 admin menus and investigating any that looked promising I decided that I was going to have to make the changes manually - Why I didn't Google this is beyond me.

Thanks to a couple of twitter friends, and the aforementioned Google search I did find this converter listed amongst the options on the import page.

It would seem that this option would be easier to find, and better categorized under Tools -> Tools; and might even serve by being linked from the categories and tags pages.

[DD32]

Theres also a small note at the bottom of the categories page (It'd be better suited to the Tag page IMO) "Categories can be selectively converted to tags using the _category to tag converter_."

+1 for listing it under Tools though, It makes sense to me to have any "scripts" which only affect the current install listed as Tools.

[janeforshort]

Punting due to time constraints, will consider in next release cycle.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

the message in cats could also be added in tags

[ninjaWR]

Patch adds the note to the tag page (and adds it back to the category page), and adds links to Tools page for the cat2tag and tag2cat pages.

Sending to 3.1 since there's a patch, although if someone likes it and wants to commit it to 3.0, I won't object ;)

[nacin]

Needs properly translated strings.

[ninjaWR]

Is ​this still the method, or are there new functions and the codex page wasn't updated?

[nacin]

Replying to ninjaWR:

Is ​this still the method

Yep.

There's a paragraph in particular that would apply here:

Avoid unusual markup and unusual control characters — do not include tags that surround your text and do not leave URLs for translation, unless they could have version in another language.

[ninjaWR]

2nd attempt; this patch has translatable string (an attempt at it, anyways))

[ninjaWR]

Guess adding a new attachment doesn't fire off an email.

Anyways, the latest patch attempts to offer the strings for translation. Since this is my first attempt at dealing with i18n, I may have done it completely wrong, so don't feel bad about telling me I have.

[dd32]

URL's can be left in translation strings.

I'm also pretty sure that for the edit-tags.php page at least, I've got that included in ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11838/11838.crazy.translations.diff Which i've not yet had a chance to get a Translators POV on for if its an acceptable method or not..

I'm still a +1 for it being on the tools page, so i'll have a look into that shortly.

[dd32]

(In [13450]) Add Tag::Cat converters to the Tools page. Props ninjaWR. Add Tag->Cat converter links on Manage Tags page. Fixes #8634