Deleting a parent category – invisible sub-category problem

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  yoidoreorg · Member · Jun 24, 2008 at 5:55 pm

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  Hi,

  I have a problem with category management.

  I just deleted a parent category with a few sub-categories on the category management.
  Then, the sub-categories were removed – which is good.

  But when I try to re-create a category that has an identical name with one of those auto-removed sub-categories, it says it exists.

  On the post edit page, those seemed-to-be-deleted sub-categories appear on the category section.

  Did I do anything wrong or is this a bug?

  Thanks in advance,

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · Jun 24, 2008 at 5:57 pm

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  I believe that you need to go to whatever entries those categories and sub-categories were used, and re-publish. Then wordpress will acknowledge that those ‘names’ don’t exist anymore. Even though you deleted the categories, they still show on the entries until you republish.

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Jun 24, 2008 at 6:23 pm

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  I have removed the categories from the database. They should no longer show up on the Write Post page.

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  yoidoreorg · Member · Jun 26, 2008 at 4:36 pm

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  @diamondfistwerny

  Thank you for the reply. As far as I checked the posts I have, there’re no entries that are set in those categories that I deleted. Maybe because the staff helped me fixed it.

  @mtdewvirus

  Thank you for helping me out. I just checked my categories and they are removed. Thanks again for the support.