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forcities on "Categories Messed Up"

forcities — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:43:56 +0000

Hi, I'm trying to update a category, but whenever I try to do so, "Category not updated" appears. What's happening? Thanks.

mariawalker on "Categories Messed Up"

mariawalker — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:14:21 +0000

Hi, I'm trying to make a parent category, and it's not showing up on my sidebar. The subcategories are just listing as regular categories on the side.
The parent category is Paintings, and I'd like Recent Paintings, and Paintings 2007 to be the subs.

I'm at http://mariawalker.wordpress.com/.

Thanks!

luckystraights on "Categories Messed Up"

luckystraights — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:45:51 +0000

sorry to jump on the band waggon, but I appear to have the same problems. Just tried deleting most of my categories and re-creating them, but I can't even do that, have managed to create one or two new categories, but the older ones are still visible on my blog, whilst not being listed in the categories management window, so I can't do anything about them?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://luckystraights.wordpress.com/

Thank you

ratinacage on "Categories Messed Up"

ratinacage — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:27:50 +0000

I also have a problem with categories. I fouled up somehow and now I have a double of 'uncategorized' and I can't get rid of the duplicate. I've tried everything, even deleting all my categories. It makes my blog look messy. http://ratinacage.wordpress.com

thesacredpath on "Categories Messed Up"

thesacredpath — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:40:34 +0000

You have to write posts and assign them to the categories before they will show up in the category widget.

coffeespew on "Categories Messed Up"

coffeespew — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:34:56 +0000

I'm a newbie. Nothing I list or add as a "category" is showing up on my blog. I see I'm not alone is this. What to do? Is this a long term inexplicable problem? I'm at coffeespew.wordpress.com.

calhoununderground on "Categories Messed Up"

calhoununderground — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:49:32 +0000

3 hours of work fixed MOST of the problem, but some of the DATED posts are still out of order within their parent categories. At least they are dated....

arizonad on "Categories Messed Up"

arizonad — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:59:35 +0000

Yep, I've got subcategory problems myself; they aren't lined up under the parent category like I thought they would be. I've heard this can be corrected manually, but darned if I know how.

AZ Dawn
http://arizonad.wordpress.com

calhoununderground on "Categories Messed Up"

calhoununderground — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:43:36 +0000

My categories went bye-bye a couple weeks ago, but I didn't think it would be PERMANENT! But I see now it is. I desperately need a fix! My local news is mixed up with my national news and my humor and fiction is mixed up with serious reality. It is nearly impossible to find the right category to put the right post under! If I have to redo the organization of an entire years worth of articles, I'll be at it until NEXT year! HELP!!! http://calhoununderground.wordpress.com

andypiper on "Categories Messed Up"

andypiper — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:42:10 +0000

I have some weirdness on my blog http://andypiper.wordpress.com/ where stuff is going into a category called "24924" even though I deleted all the categories and migrated to tags. I think this may be caused by either Windows Live Writer or ecto, but I'm not sure, and I'd love to get rid of this rogue category...

vladimirzakharov on "Categories Messed Up"

vladimirzakharov — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:35:01 +0000

Thanks Ryan for restoring my categories.

Can you guys tell what's the reason they sometimes get messed up? Is it probable that this will repeat in future?

vladimirzakharov on "Categories Messed Up"

vladimirzakharov — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:22:21 +0000

Still no fix or a mere feedback (now i've also tried the support page)

michaellockshin on "Categories Messed Up"

michaellockshin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:49:41 +0000

Thanks for asking. Yesterday I cleared the cache, cookies and history. Just now tried to edit an existing subcategory but still get "! category not updated" message. Hierarchy remains fine but of course I am reluctant to try anything with categories in case the hierarchy gets messed up again. I emailed support yesterday (during open hours) and have not received any reply (4th email so far.)

thesacredpath on "Categories Messed Up"

thesacredpath — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:38:06 +0000

@michaellockshin
Is this still a problem? If so, try logging out of wordpress, clearing your cache and cookies and then logging back in. Do be aware that the sidebar widgets are cached, and it may take up to a few hours for the category to disappear from the category widget.

thesacredpath on "Categories Messed Up"

thesacredpath — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:35:57 +0000

@inquirer
Staff do monitor these forums, and it may be that someone will have it fixed before tomorrow morning, but if they don't, contact support and give them the details including your user name, complete blog URL and email address used to sign up for your blog.

http://wordpress.com/contact-support (9am-5pm Pacific, Mon-Fri)

inquirer on "Categories Messed Up"

inquirer — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:03:15 +0000

HUGE problems at http://inquirer.wordpress.com please help me out! I can't add or delete sub categories or rearrange them. It all messed up the other day.

Thanks in advance!

michaellockshin on "Categories Messed Up"

michaellockshin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:53:12 +0000

Tried to delete a sub-category - doesn'd delete and this appeared in the Add Category box below the list of categories.

AJAX is teh b0rked.

michaellockshin on "Categories Messed Up"

michaellockshin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:20:16 +0000

I contacted staff directly through the support email and have never received an answer. I have posted to this forum asking for an answer and have never received any communication. (I noted my blog url, my theme, operating system, explorer version and email for response.) The category problem appears and disappears quite randomly and I would like assurance that it is finally and completely fixed for my blog.

thesacredpath on "Categories Messed Up"

thesacredpath — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:43:57 +0000

@vladimir
That is a problem so let's hope staff will take a look at this thread and get things straightened out for you.

vladimirzakharov on "Categories Messed Up"

vladimirzakharov — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:41:19 +0000

@thesacredpath
I would gladly contact "directly", but 9am-5pm PDT is 20pm-4am MOSCOW time, which is far beyond MY working time. If I found any kind of a standard "leave a ticket" page, I wouldn't even think of raising this problem in the forum.

thesacredpath on "Categories Messed Up"

thesacredpath — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:05:18 +0000

@calsifer
Glad to hear they have reappeared.

calsifer on "Categories Messed Up"

calsifer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:18:09 +0000

Please ignore my last post, the affected cats have re-appeared. Thanks.

calsifer on "Categories Messed Up"

calsifer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:31:00 +0000

Hi,
I've managed to manually re-categorise my list on tippedearclan.wordpress.com, but now a problem has cropped up: after completing my re-categorisation, I tried to put some categories under a new parent and they have have disappeared. The affected categories are Asia, Singapore, Dogs, Cats. These categories were all root categories unaffected by the categorisation problem. Please assist to return them to visibility.

Interestingly, in my manual re-categorisation, categories that were previously child cats were able to be tagged to their parents successfully.

Thanks!

thesacredpath on "Categories Messed Up"

thesacredpath — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:45:59 +0000

Just because they have not responded in this thread does not mean they are not there. Also, Mark is in the UK, so there is the time difference. If it isn't corrected by tomorrow, contact staff directly using the "support" tab in your dashboard or going here: http://wordpress.com/contact-support . Their hours are 9a-5p Pacific, M-F).

vladimirzakharov on "Categories Messed Up"

vladimirzakharov — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:32:22 +0000

@thesacredpath
Doesn't seem to me the staff is monitoring anything here :\

michaellockshin on "Categories Messed Up"

michaellockshin — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:18:52 +0000

The 2 new sub-categories I tried to add but could not a few hours ago have mysteriously appeared and so I have re-categorized the blogs and the hierarchy in the way I want it. However, I still have no answer why categories and sub-categories keep mysteriously appearing, disappearing, are able to be edited, are not able to be edited, are able to be added, are not able to be added and would like some assurance that this will not happen randomly in the future.

Thank you.

michaellockshin on "Categories Messed Up"

michaellockshin — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:35:17 +0000

Still no fix for my blog also. And I can't add new sub categories. Can anyone tell me why this has been happening?

vladimirzakharov on "Categories Messed Up"

vladimirzakharov — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:58:29 +0000

Still no fix for my blag :\ :/

novelcatchup on "Categories Messed Up"

novelcatchup — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:04:47 +0000

OK, my categories are back! (Hope it's not a temporary thing... =P)

Anyway, thanks to everyonewho has helped in my problem!!! And sorry if I had 'acted' like a brat in the forum threads... =P

thesacredpath on "Categories Messed Up"

thesacredpath — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:22:16 +0000

@countryepicure
Well hopefully it won't happen again, but at least staff was able to save everyone some work. Glad things are back to normal for you. Happy blogging.