Deleting categories

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  flippyzipflop · Member · Jun 29, 2014 at 3:24 pm

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  I am trying to add 2 separate categories on my sidebar widget. The first category I want to be titled A week of Blogging, and I want it to be the seven days of the week (Fun-day Sunday, Motivational Monday, etc.)

  The second category widget I want to be my regularly categorized blogs (Motivational, Inspirational, Gratitude, etc.)

  My problem? When I do this, the 2 categories glob together, driving me INSANE. Secondly, there are categories showing up multiple times and I can’t figure out how to delete them. Any idea of any of this is a possibility? I tried deleting the categories and starting fresh, but when I add them back, the categories are already stored. How do I start fresh??

  Thanks in advance for any help!
  ~Kate

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jun 29, 2014 at 3:40 pm

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  We do not add Categories to Categories widgets. We assign Categories to Posts http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#adding-categories-via-the-categories-module or we create them in our Dashboard. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#adding-categories-via-the-dashboard We also set a default Category Setting the Default Category

  When we publish a post the post automatically displays in the Categories widget. The widget has no data it can display until you publish a post in a Category. The same is true of Categories pages.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

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  flippyzipflop · Member · Jun 29, 2014 at 3:56 pm

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  But when I add the category widget, it gives me the option to add a new category. I’ve since added several (Advice, motivation, etc.) However, there are categories that are in there several times. I’d like to delete them. It only gives me the option to add categories, not delete.