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[Webmason]

Hello,

I am brand new at this and am very excited about it! Everything is looking great!

My question today is, I have entered a number of categories (13) and some sub-categories.
But on my home page, only four main categories (and their subs) show up.

Is there a way to show all of the categories on the home page?

Sorry for my naivety, but I really do appreciate your time!

Thanks,
Tom

[Nick]

You can only have one level of child categories with the Categories plugin:

parent
- child 1
- child 2
parent 2
- child 3
parent 3
- child 4
- - grandchild 1 <-- THIS WON'T WORK.

Confusingly, Category Manager actually allows you to add grandchildren, but more confusingly it shows them as regular children (it's a bug). You should be able to undo any "grandchildren" by moving them up to "main" categories and then reinserting them as children.

[Webmason]

Hi Nick,

Wow! Thanks for the super-hyper-quick response!!

I'll try to be a bit more clear,

My categories look like this on my home page: (ignoring sub-categories for now)

Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3 Cat 4

What I'm looking for is:

Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3 Cat 4 Cat 5 Cat 6 Cat 7 Cat 8 etc. till I have all thirteen parents.

Thanks again!

Tom

[Webmason]

Ok now I see where the other categories are. They are listed in the fourth category drop down - as if they were children. This is not right because they are their own top level categories. hmmm...

[Nick]

Right, so you're saying you've put in 13 main categories, but only 4 are showing up.

And I'm saying that somewhere you've probably triggered that annoying grandchild bug, which is preventing the other categories from showing.

Edit: So you need to move those "hidden" categories up to "main" categories, and then back into sub-categories to free them up again

[Webmason]

Ok, thanks Nick. I get it. (It's getting late for me!) Yes, I did have 1 Grandchild. Thanks for the fix!!

[alexcaro]

Hi,

I would like to have 3 levels categories on my site. With 2 levels is working as a charm. But when I want to do it trough category manager (Add a Child Category to a Child Category), the created category is showing as a 2 level and not as a third level. What's is going wrong?

Thank you for your time,

Alex