New Categories don't work properly

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  summonspirit · Member · May 21, 2011 at 12:32 pm

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  Lately, I discovered a problem with categories:

  I tried to make a new category for my new post and it didn’t appear in the right sidebar. But when I clicked on Categories in the left dashboard-sidebar, it was there.
  So I copied the entry, refreshed the “new article”-page, the category appeared and I just pasted my text, but of course that’s only a work-around.

  I don’t know why that happened, but maybe someone could have a look at it.

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  justjennifer · Member · May 21, 2011 at 1:47 pm

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  How/where did you create the category to begin with? Was it in the Post Editor or on via the Dashboard>Posts>Categories page?

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  summonspirit · Member · May 21, 2011 at 1:52 pm

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  Here: http://s7.directupload.net/images/110521/r3ea5uwu.png

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2011 at 3:38 pm

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  @angelserafina
  You can create as many categories as you wish but the Categories widget cannot display null data. So until you publish a post and assign the Category you created to that post there is no data ie. posts linked titles for the Categories widget to display. Have you published a post in the Category that’s not displaying? If so then please post a link to it.

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  summonspirit · Member · May 21, 2011 at 5:14 pm

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  @timethief No, it’s not about the widget. I created the category WHILE I wrote my new entry and it didn’t show up in the list on the screenshot I posted.

  If I click “new category”, then type a name and confirm that, it should show up in the list. It always worked for me.

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2011 at 5:16 pm

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  Ahhh … now I understand you. It sounds like you will need some Staff help with this. Here’s the link http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/