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  finestitcher · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 12:57 am

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  I have just begun to design. I added categories which begins, of course, with “uncategorized.” I added four categories, but when I test the drop-down I don’t see the four created categories, but only the “uncategorized.” I plan to have each category used to individually address each on my four medical conditions/diseases.

  Where are my four choices? What do I do?

  Thanks, Carolyn

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 1:03 am

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  Make blog posts, and categorize them appropriately. Categories do not show in the category widget until they have been used in at least one post.

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  finestitcher · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 1:09 am

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  Thank you, that makes total sense.

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  bbqman001 · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 5:49 pm

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  I’m new to this so my question is how do you categorize a post before you publish it?

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  bbqman001 · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 5:55 pm

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  My apologies if I wated someones time—— I’ve figured it out.
  Cheers

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  finestitcher · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 6:09 pm

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  Patience, someone who has a better answer than mine will reply.

  I believe that at the bottom of your post where you see “tags” …. Those are your self identified categories; where you identify you post for search by a visitor. For example, if you put “books” there, two things will happen.

  1.if you allow search and that word is input by a visitor they will find all posts that have that tag/category.

  2. If you are using a widget for categories, the tag will appear there and anytime a visitor clicks on that word all posts tagged with that word will appear.