Categories Missing

  • Certain categories now are missing from the list selectable with checkboxes when writing or editing a post, whereas they exist on the Manage::Categories page.

    Now means after I upgraded from latest stable to 2.0 RC3, and then to 2.0.

    I would appreciate knowing how to restore this functionality. After using phpAdmin to edit the wp2cat table, I was able to add the additonal categories that I wanted for a particular post. They remained missing from the selectable list.

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  • Ok at admin-functions.php
    I found this line and increased the number it was set at: 100 , up to 800 and everything seems to work now.

    function return_categories_list($parent = 0) {
    global $wpdb;
    return $wpdb->get_col(“SELECT cat_ID FROM $wpdb->categories WHERE category_parent = $parent ORDER BY category_count DESC LIMIT 800”);
    }

    I’ve lost my category list, too. My site is only a few months old and has a limited number of categories.

    I have an idea that creating categories with names containing punctuation like “.” (last thing I did) or “:” (from earlier post) causes problems.

    Any takers?

    Well, I found my answer: Any category with zero posts will not display subcategories.

    Hopefully, someone can take a look at that. It may be a rare situation, but checking for subcategories could be added to the display conditions.

    Keep up the good work.

    I am having this problem too! The dropdown menu will not show more than 20 page parents/categories. I don’t have that limit in my admin-functions.php file though. I’m using 2.0.4 (the latest version). Please help! I’ve also tried changing numerous bigint numbers in the database from 20 to 100 with no result. I don’t know what to do. This is also when writing pages, not posts. I don’t have more than 20 categories for posts though so I don’t know if this problem would persist there too.

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