Can I make Categories 1 and Categories 2 different?
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I created a blog yesterday and I’m still trying to figure stuff out. How do I make Categories 1 and 2 on my widget list have different sub categories on them?
Here is a picture. http://nintendome.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/siedebar.png
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The answer to your question is “no”. All Categories widgets appear to be “clones” with identical content.
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This separate categories thing seems to be an ongoing problem. I really wish it was solved. It would be a nice solution to blogs with big category lists. Was it the case that it works in some themes?
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Some bloggers may consider the multiple category widgets that all produce clones to be perplexing. What useful purpose does of creation of category widget clones serve? I blogged it here http://wpbloggingtips.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/perplexing-new-features-multiple-category-widgets-and-tagging/
However, if it is considered to be a “problem” from the viewpoint of staff then we have received no indication of this. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=clones
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yes, i have the same problem as well..for example i wish to have 2 types of categories 1)food (2) company ….in the first category, i would like to add subcategories which are a) breakfast (b)lunch (c)dinner…in the second category, i would like to add subcategories (a) about company (b)committee (c) financial
if u already have the solution to this problem, could you tell me about it? thank you..
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There’s no solution using separate widgets (no widget to separate “food” and “company”, for instance) but if you go to Dashboard > Manage > Categories you can click edit and assign some to category parents. That means it will give your categories an order in your sidebar like Food > Lunch > Dinner. That’s probably the closest to what you want to do. Hope that helps.
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Further to the above, the only solution I’ve had so far is to use CAPS, as in http://jimenarte.wordpress.com. It isn’t elegant, but at least it separates things more or less as I want them and provides a visual difference if nothing else. In this case, I’ve separated, say, ‘PAINTINGS’ from ‘juan lobillo’, for instance. The categories and ‘sub-categories’ still come up alphabetically, which still makes them kind of random. It would be so great if we could use the Category widgets as I thought they were intended. Otherwise, why do we get so many Category widgets under Options? They all come up as clones of each other, right? Or is it just me?
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i wanted to have one widget with “contributors” and another with “Categories” – yes, of course the names are different but then there are the clones. why arent wordpress staffers on these forums answering questions (or FIXING) this really obvious error.
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WP staffers don’t usually answer questions in the forums. They are aware of the situation and that people want it changed; if you want to add your voice to the others, contact Support from your dashboard during their office hours.
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By creating blogroll ‘categories’ I managed to get what I wanted: to separate the type of art from the people doing it. I had to link each one separately to the post it belonged to. It took a lot of time, but them I’m slow anyway.
The site’s (http://jimenarte.wordpress.com) changed since my last post here.
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