jbucknoff

Maybe your problem is that you don’t have any posts assigned to those categories.

Bingo!

Michael, thanks!

I think that the WP documentation should mention that new categories do not show up until after the first post is added. It may seem logical to the developers of the tool, but they should still spell it out — don’t assume that it’s self-evident.

– – Jerry

Thanks Michael.

However, I just installed the blog, so I’m using all of the defaults. (I haven’t changed or modified anything.) I haven’t installed any plug-ins, either.

The most dynamic thing I did was insert an animated .gif image on my main page, but I doubt if that caused a problem. I also changed the name of the “uncategorized” category to “Main”, which sounds better.

Here is my blog, if you want to take a look and see what I mean:
blogs.pmbestpractices.com

Thanks!!
– – Jerry B.

WordPress Categories not displaying
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I’m having a problem displaying more than one category. From some of the other message boards I’ve read, I can see that other people are having a similar problem.

I go to the admin Dashboard and open the Categories page. I can add new categories and sub-categories here, but they never show up on the blog page. I am able to edit the original (“uncategorized”) category to another name, but that is all.

I “repaired” all of my MySQL tables, as suggested, but this didn’t help. By the way, I don’t see a wp_category table in my database (described in some older documentation), but I do see the name of my (missing) category in the wp_terms table as well as the description of the (missing) category in the wp_term_taxonomy table.

These are the 10 tables in my MySQL database:

wp_comments
wp_links
wp_ptions
wp_postmeta
wp_post
wp_terms
wp_termwp_relationships
wp_termwp_taxonomy
wp_metadata
wp_users

I think I’m using 2.7. I installed it through the GoDaddy interface.

Can anyone help me? Thanks !!!

Jerry Bucknoff
PM Best Practices

Re: WordPress categories do not show up on my blog

I’m having a problem displaying more than one category. From some of the other message boards I’ve read, I can see that other people are having a similar problem.

I go to the admin Dashboard and open the Categories page. I can add new categories and sub-categories here, but they never show up on the blog page. I am able to edit the original (“uncategorized”) category to another name, but that is all.

I “repaired” all of my MySQL tables, as suggested, but this didn’t help. By the way, I don’t see a wp_category table in my database (described in some older documentation), but I do see the name of my (missing) category in the wp_terms table as well as the description of the (missing) category in the wp_term_taxonomy table.

These are the 10 tables in my MySQL database:

wp_comments
wp_links
wp_ptions
wp_postmeta
wp_post
wp_terms
wp_termwp_relationships
wp_termwp_taxonomy
wp_metadata
wp_users

I think I’m using 2.7. I installed it through the GoDaddy interface.

Can anyone help me? Thanks !!!

Jerry Bucknoff
PM Best Practices

I’m having a problem displaying more than one category. From some of the other message boards I’ve read, I can see that other people are having a similar problem.

I go to the admin Dashboard and open the Categories page. I can add new categories and sub-categories here, but they never show up on the blog page. I am able to edit the original (“uncategorized”) category to another name, but that is all.

I “repaired” all of my MySQL tables, as suggested, but this didn’t help. By the way, I don’t see a wp_category table in my database (described in some older documentation), but I do see the name of my (missing) category in the wp_terms table as well as the description of the (missing) category in the wp_term_taxonomy table.

These are the 10 tables in my MySQL database:

wp_comments
wp_links
wp_ptions
wp_postmeta
wp_post
wp_terms
wp_termwp_relationships
wp_termwp_taxonomy
wp_metadata
wp_users

I think I’m using 2.7. I installed it through the GoDaddy interface.

Can anyone help me? Thanks !!!

Jerry Bucknoff
PM Best Practices

I am also having a problem displaying more than one category, so the people above are not alone.

I go to the admin Dashboard and open the Categories page. I can add new categories and sub-categories here, but they never show up on the blog page. I am able to edit the original (“uncategorized”) category to another name, but that is all.

I “repaired” all of my MySQL tables, as suggested, but this didn’t help. By the way, I don’t see a wp_category table in my database, but I do see the name of my (missing) category in the wp_terms table as well as the description of the (missing) category in the wp_term_taxonomy table.

These are the 10 tables in my MySQL database:

wp_comments
wp_links
wp_ptions
wp_postmeta
wp_post
wp_terms
wp_termwp_relationships
wp_termwp_taxonomy
wp_metadata
wp_users

I think I’m using 2.7. I installed it through the GoDaddy interface.

Thanks !!