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  vinnygrette · Member · Mar 22, 2014 at 10:30 pm

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  Where do I find the category ID so I can remove two categories from my category cloud under widgets? The name or slug for the category doesn’t work. I want to hide the two highest level categories from the display because nearly all my posts are filed under them.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 22, 2014 at 11:11 pm

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  Hi there,
  Go to Dashboard > Posts > Categories
  Hover over category name and check upper browser bar to locate it.
  See here
  http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/screen-shot-2014-02-17-at-3-35-22-pm1.png?w=600
  Read here http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/category-cloud-widget/#settings

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  vinnygrette · Member · Mar 23, 2014 at 2:32 am

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  Thank you once again, Timethief – I’d never have found this info without your help :).

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2014 at 3:32 am

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  You’re welcome :)

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  vinnygrette · Member · Mar 24, 2014 at 9:12 pm

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  If you’re interested, I wrote a post about you, going up tomorrow :)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2014 at 9:38 pm

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  You did! Wow … I hope you said nice things about me. :)

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  vinnygrette · Member · Mar 25, 2014 at 9:02 pm

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  I tried to – hope it’s ok – up just now :)