Why aren't Categories showing in the click-down menu?

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  irn2012 · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 9:11 pm

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  Hi, I can’t see my categories displayed in the click-down menu in the side bar – although they display under each post. Ditto with my tags.
  Help please!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 9:14 pm

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  Have you actually published posts with categories assigned to them? if not then there is no data for any widget to display.
  See also >
  Categories widget – Show as dropdown
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
  There is no dropdown in this case > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tag-cloud-widget/

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  irn2012 · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 9:23 pm

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  I’ve published (privately) three posts with different categories and set up the categories widget in the sidebar – but nothing appears in the categoreis widget? I’ve gone through the categories support page and have done everything (I think). On my dashboard for posts it shows the categories I’ve selected against each post but on the dashboard for categories it shows the categories but says I have no posts…

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  irn2012 · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 9:23 pm

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  I’ve published (privately) three posts with different categories and set up the categories widget in the sidebar – but nothing appears in the categories widget? I’ve gone through the categories support page and have done everything (I think). On my dashboard for posts it shows the categories I’ve selected against each post but on the dashboard for categories it shows the categories but says I have no posts…

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 9:31 pm

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  irn2012 · Member · Dec 5, 2012 at 9:41 am

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  Thanks!