Category Problem

Firstly, my site: https://wearecentralpark.com

Problem is, i’m trying to add a new category. Now as you’ll see, each existing category is styled using css, and with code inside the index.php file. Since i have added this new category (which incidentally doesn’t have a link in the sidebar menu yet) WordPress recognizes theres a new category, but it doesn’t seem to call up the index.php file in order to style it, therefor rendering it as a “news category” which is green.

If i edit any post that has been posted within the new category, and say change it to a post in one of the existing categories, it renders it correctly, and recognizes the css that styles it.

I have deleted the index.php file in my theme folder, making no difference on my site. which is crazy weird, the site looks just like it does with the index.php in it. if I activate the default theme, then the icons show up in the posts (i’m refering to the little icons below the speech bubble, above the title for each post), these icons are image sources coming from my central park v4 theme index.php – crazy!!!

basically, i can add new categories and they show up in wordpress, but they arent being picked up in the index.php in my central park theme.

I think something is borked in the database, so im not sure what to do at this point… can anyone help?

thanks muchly
lee.