Blogroll categories showing up under Blog Post Categories

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  elskermeg · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 9:40 pm

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  Hi. As of yesterday, the categories for my blogroll did not show up under my blog post category section unless there was a post actually assigned to the category. I looked at my site this evening and all of a sudden, all of my categories are showing up, even ones that don’t contain any posts. I’m not sure if it’s something I did, but I don’t like it! I am using the wordpress default theme. Hope I explained the problem well enough. Can anyone help me?

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  cornell · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 9:58 pm

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  I can see what’s happened but don’t know why.

  Best bet would be to put feedback in from your dashboard and ask the .com team for help. :)

  Collin

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  elskermeg · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 10:06 pm

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  Thanks, I’ll try that :-)

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  sweetimmolation · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 10:24 pm

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  I put in feedback last night and again just now. If it makes you feel any better, you’re not the only person.

  The folks at WP tend to fix things quick….

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  elskermeg · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 10:31 pm

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  problem solved :-)

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  sweetimmolation · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 10:33 pm

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  looks like it.

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  navasola · Member · Oct 15, 2007 at 10:55 pm

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  What purpose do the categories serve in the Blogroll?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2007 at 10:57 pm

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  @navasola

  What purpose do the categories serve in the Blogroll?

  In answer to your question: Categories provide a means of separating lengthy lists of links by topical divisions thereby promoting greater reader accessibility.

  Observation: Unfortunately, your wordpress.com username is linked to a commercial blog. Do you have a wordpress.com blog and is your question above directly pertaining to a wordpress.com blog? If so then please post the link for your wordpress.com blog.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 12:10 am

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  For reference this may help understanding the relationship between blogroll, links and categories in the wp.com blog context.

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  navasola · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 3:40 pm

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  timethief – thanks
  Don’t understand your ‘unfortunately comment’ – the navasola blogs and personal webpage are not exactly commercial although they do refer to my partner’s and my property in Portugal which is available to rent (and trial activities in Spain) – is that what you refer to?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 3:47 pm

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  When answering questions on the forum the most fortunate situation is that the blogger posting the question has linked their wordpress.com username to their wordpress.com blog. It’s also the most logical to expect they have done so considering that wordpress.com blogs are non-commercial blogs.

  When the worpress.com username and wordpress.com blog are linked it means we can click on their wordpress.com username and see the blog and give better advice and answer their questions more quickly.