Sub Categories are Showing Up as Categories
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Hi, I created sub categories in order to organise the site better.
Example, a category is: Essential Oils – Health Ailment and under than category I will list a heap of sub categories… headache, pain, hay fever etcSame with Essential Oils – Emotions, with sub categories of anxiety, stress, anger etc.
But when I check out the site, all of the sub categories are appearing down the right hand side as categories. I have double checked that I filed them under a parent category. How can I fix this?
Any help is appreciated.
NatThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Nat,
Your post categories appear to be listed in a widget in the sidebar, under the title “A-Z: Ailment.” I don’t find the category “Essential Oils – Health Ailment,” or the category “Essential Oils – Emotions.” In fact, there are no post categories beginning with the letter “E.”
If you are certain that assigned parent categories are missing from the listed categories in the widget, then I’d suggest that you add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention.
If you do get the parent categories to display in the widget, note that two of the customization options in the categories widget are (1) Display as dropdown, and (2) Show hierarchy.
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Regarding those two options, see the Configuration section of the Categories Widget support page.
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Thanks for this. You are right in not being able to see the parent categories as I ended up deleting them thinking I will just have to have a list of subcategories instead. However, now that I have your advice, I will go back and see if I can get it to work. Thank you so much for helping!
Nat -
You’re welcome. The instructions regarding forming a parent and child relationships, hazy as they are, are not found in the Categories Widget support page, but rather in the Categories support page.
You might find it easier to use the wp-admin Categories page. Yours would be at https://nattieplant.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category.
Note, however, that the pages that you’ve added titled “Essential Oils: Emotions,” and “Essential Oils – Health Ailment,” are static pages. Links to them can be used as categories in the menu, but they are not category pages. See the Category Pages support page. A category page is a dynamic page created automatically when you assign a specific category to one or more posts. It displays only the posts assigned that category, and will be updated each time a published post is assigned the specific category.
To have links to category pages in a menu would require that you create and activate a custom menu that would replace the default pages menu. See the Custom Menus support page.
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Adding a page such as “Essential Oils: Emotions” will add what may be used as a category to the menu, but it isn’t a post category. Post categories can only be added as described in the Categories support page in the sections ‘Adding Categories via the Categories Module” and “Adding Categories via WP Admin.”
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Which, I think, is exactly what I want.
Eg. I don’t want to actually post anything in the Essential Oils: Emotions, I just want it there to organise the categories. I would actually be posting in categories such as, stress, anxiety, anger etc….. So, what you described above, is that what I would do to achieve this?
I’m so sorry, I am not tech savvy! And I am currently on deployment, doing this in my down time, and the internet can be so frustratingly slow lol.
Sincere appreciation for helping me
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Its all good. I think I got it via your first post….. via the widget customisation!! Thanks again
Nat :) -
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