diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
index 516fa0e..cd1c2bb 100644
--- a/README.rdoc
+++ b/README.rdoc
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ the popular WP blog url structure "YYYY-MM/slug", be warned that Refinery just u
 So your inner site links will point to the old WP url. 
 
 == TODO
-- categories
 - tags
 - attachments
   - what about wordpress suffixes like -300x290 ?
diff --git a/lib/wordpress/post.rb b/lib/wordpress/post.rb
index 62a7d98..f751a5f 100644
--- a/lib/wordpress/post.rb
+++ b/lib/wordpress/post.rb
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ module WordPressImport
       translation.locale = "en"
       translation.title = title
       translation.body = content_formatted
+
+      # merge the translation's category list with the wordpress post's
+      translation.category_list |= categories.collect(&:name)
+      # and tags
+      translation.category_list |= tags.collect(&:name)
+
       translation.save
       
       post.save