Trying to remove specific post tags

[ashWhitney]

Hello

I'd be grateful if anyone can offer some advice on the following please.

I'm using a RSS to Post plugin to import posts into my site. Unfortunately the RSS feed isn't distinguishing between 'categories' and 'tags', so imported posts are being tagged with a category name as well, for example:

Tags: categoryName, tag1, tag2, tag3

I appreciate that I could manually delete the tag 'categoryName', but I have 7 sub-sites on a multi-site setup importing on an almost daily basis, so doing it manually would be quite a nuisance.

I was wondering if anyone had experience of a function etc. that could be used to exclude/delete a specific tag from the post tags.

I was slightly optimistic that I could use something like the following in the Post Meta area of the Genesis Simple Edits plugin, but I tried and failed.

[post_tags sep=", " before="Tags: " exclude="categoryName"]

Thanks for your time.

Ash

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[Brad Dalton]

1. You could run a SQL query in phpMyAdmin

Make sure you fully backup your data.

2. Or use a PHP function like this http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/135325/how-to-remove-specific-tag-from-multiple-posts

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[ashWhitney]

Hello Brad

Thanks for your time and reply.

The function you mentioned points me in the right direction.

I'll see if I can modify it as it's coded to remove tags from specified post ID's, whereas I'd like to remove tags from ALL posts.

I have post ID's, but I'd have to change the function to include tens of new ID's each time posts are imported, so In practice it would be better not to have to specify post ID's.

Kind Regards

Ash

[Brad Dalton]

Running a SQL query in phpMyAdmin might be better if you can find the code to use.

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[ashWhitney]

Hello Brad

Thanks for your suggestions.

If it's useful for anyone with the same issue, the very helpful people from the WP RSS Aggregator plugin I'm using to import posts kindly supplied me with a function to prevent category names being added as post tags on import, so I no longer need to look for a method to remove them.

Kind Regards

Ash

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