Why is my category list messed up?

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 19, 2013 at 3:17 pm

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  I was updating the names of our categories, and organizing.

  On the front page if you select the category widget, at the bottom of the list you’ll see seven categories:
  The Crown Chakra
  The Third Eye Chakra
  The Throat Chakra
  The Heart Chakra
  The Solar Plexus Chakra
  The Sacral Chakra
  The Root Chakra

  Those all had slightly different names, and I just updated them to what they are now, then I moved the category “classes” (Now named “Online Classes/Retreats”) from under the Third Eye Chakra category to a new category named “Collective Projects”.

  Now those seven categories listed above aren’t showing up in the category list in my dashboard, and they all should have been under a category named “Chakra Centers”.

  Are the systems still updating or something?
  Any insight is greatly appreciated
  Loving Light!
  Joe*

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 20, 2013 at 2:21 pm

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  Anybody?

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 12:57 am

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  Anything? I think the wordpress systems glitched somehow, because I still can’t access those categories from my dashboard. I could use some serious help.

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  narwhalgirl4 · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 1:38 am

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  i see the seven categories on the list. maybe its a slow computer or something!

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 1:04 pm

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  @narwhalgirl4 ya it shows up in the widget, but when I go to dashboard > posts > categories, they’re missing.

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 1:18 pm

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  Could someone call a staff member? I absolutely love you volunteers, but I’m afraid this is beyond us.

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 5:29 pm

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  Dude something’s seriously messed up, I just found some of those missing post categories in the link categories…

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 5:33 pm

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  That IS odd. I’ll flag this for staff, as that sounds like a bug to me.

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 21, 2013 at 6:21 pm

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  @raincoaster Thanks! I have no idea what’s going on ><

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 22, 2013 at 8:52 pm

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  Hi there,

  So you want Chakra Centers to be the parent of these seven categories? I’ll be checking the other items you mention out too, but I’d like to get this solved first!

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 22, 2013 at 9:42 pm

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  Yes, and I can’t view those seven categories from the dashboard, yet they seem to show up everywhere else like normal. 
  Also now I think the links categories might have been there before this happened. 
  Thank you!

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 23, 2013 at 4:59 pm

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  Ok, as a test, I searched for “the crown chakra” and it successfully showed up. But I noticed that when I hovered over it’s name and clicked “edit” it didn’t have its parent set. So I set the parent as “Chakra Centers” and saved. Then, once the page refreshed, it appeared as expected.

  https://chakracenter.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

  So I would recommend that you search for each of the seven (now 6) missing categories and edit it to make sure that the parent is specified as “Chakra Centers” and then you should be all set!

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  fringisticjoe · Member · Jan 23, 2013 at 6:43 pm

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  Thank you! thank you! thank you! It all looks better now :3

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 24, 2013 at 2:37 pm

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  So glad to be able to help!