Worked great until today.

Just updated WP and finding the same thing.

In fact, it seems to be stuck with the content it included prior to the update. I just added a new post, and it’s not showing up in the list.

I have the same issue too with the latest verion of WordPress. The category box just allow the option “all categories”.

Same here, only have ‘all categories’ in dropdown.

Fix from another thread:

Hi

I worked around this by replacing tw-recent-posts-widget.php line 242:

$cats = get_categories(array(‘hide_empty’ => 0, ‘name’ => ‘category’, ‘hierarchical’ => true));

With:

$cats = get_categories(array(‘hide_empty’ => 0, ‘hierarchical’ => true));

Hope that helps

The solution you indicated (e5115271) is perfect. It works and now I see the categories in the list. Very thanks!