Categories reappearing after deleting them

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  duckduckgrayduck · Member · Oct 29, 2014 at 1:11 pm

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  I need to permanently delete some categories. I keep deleting them, but then they reappear hours later. Why is this happening?

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 29, 2014 at 5:29 pm

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  Can you tell me what Categories you’re trying to delete and what steps you’re taking to delete them?

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  duckduckgrayduck · Member · Oct 29, 2014 at 9:16 pm

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  I have some redundant (duplicate like) categories such as “Books” or “Music” that I have deleted by clicking the red “delete” link under the category on the categories section of the WordPress dashboard. After I click the delete link, the category disappears. However, when I go back hours or days later, the deleted categories are there again. I am using Firefox if that matters.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 30, 2014 at 12:30 am

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  Thanks for that info! I took a look at your categories and it seems like this is happening because you have posts that are still using those categories. You’ll want to remove the category from any posts that are using it. For example, here’s posts using the category “music”:

  https://duckduckgrayduck.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=music

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Oct 30, 2014 at 12:31 am

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  Whoops! Hit reply too quickly. :)

  To find these lists, you can click on the number to the right of the category name:

  https://duckduckgrayduck.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

  Let me know if I can help further.