How does categories work?
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Hi. This is the village idiot speaking…or at least I was beginning to feel as tho’ I was. I am finding it impossible to place my posts into a category. I’ve created the category, I’ve written my post – ta-da! It insists it’s going to be in uncategorized! In fact, my blog says I HAVE no categories!? Funny, but after all these years of survival, it’s becoming increasingly evident that it must have been a miracle. I am either really dumb & lucky, or there’s something radically wrong. I cannot figure this out! At least not here with Word Press. I have blogs in other places since I run a hockey message board & chat room, but this place has me stymied. What’s worse, every place where there are questions here regarding categories, the thread is closed. Are they afraid of addressing a problem or something or just avoiding doing anything? C’mon guys, I’m usually really easy to get along with – don’t ruin my record. =)
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If you have created the categories, it should go something like this:
write a post, scroll down, click on categories (show all), and tick off the cats you want assigned to that post. Or edit an already written post, and do the same. -
Thanks boblets, that’s exactly what I did & am continuing to do with editing, but no dice. Thank you for at least confirming that I haven’t reached village idiot status…yet. I will continue to noodle around with it then & maybe something will fall into place. What has been happening so far is that the categories I created turn into tags & then the posts (only two so far btw) have a string of tags. Maybe that’s the prob? Only two posts?
Love your blog too…I just took a peek.
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Well, you can’t create categories without assigning them to posts, so yes, that might be the issue here. Does it work for categories if you apply them to your posts?
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“you can’t create categories without assigning them to posts”…. Really??? How does a categories get created when one has not created it? I have a category (just looked now) that is called Video, but I never mannually created it? mmm?
Also what does dashboard > manage > categories > linked categories actually do? Is it the same as parent child linking? It appears to be the same as Categories but I am not sure…
Thanks
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You can create categories without assigning them to posts. But they won’t display on your blog (in the category widget) until there is a post assigned to them.
I don’t see the Linked categories thing in my dashboard.
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