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1. ljova
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I'm experiencing a difficulty and am not sure where the source of it lies.

   Problem:
   I'm trying to get a category to split into different subcategory, and to get posts to appear in both.

   Unfortunately, that's not happening.

   Take a look at http://Ljova.com/events
   (or http://Ljova.com/category/events - for some reason they both work.)

   Some of these events, I wanted to split off into sub-categories, for example
   http://Ljova.com/events/kronos
   or
   http://Ljova.com/events/romashka

   I've created the subcategories, and flagged the posts to apepar in both /events and the subcategory.

   But the subcategories don't appear.

   Why not?

   Thank you!

   Warmest,

   Ljova

2. jwurster
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Seems like there are a lot of similar category questions. Please see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/46263.

3. ljova
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   not sure how that post relates to mine, though - he's having a trouble getting the subcategories to show up in his sidebar; I'm having trouble to get the entries to showup in the subcategory directories...

4. jwurster
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Specifically, somewhere in your sidebar.php you will have the code to display the categories. I have:
   <?php list_cats(1, 'all', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0,0,'','','','',1) ?>
   This allows children categories to be displayed under their parent category.

   But maybe I am not understanding. Look at my site at http://www.jwurster.us/wordpress/ and see if that is what you want.

5. ljova
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   J, I think we're talking about slightly different things. You're talking about the subcategories appearing in the sidebar. I am talking about entries appearing in the subcategories they're assigned to.

   OK, please try this if you have a moment:
   go to http://Ljova.com/events

   There you see a post that says "Ljova with Romashka" and "Kronos in Le Havre, France"

   both have been flagged into the "Events" category, as well as into subcategories, which should publish into:

   http://Ljova.com/events/romashka/
   and
   http://Ljova.com/events/kronos/

   but they don't. In the wordpress admin, it looks like it should work (these paths appear under the subcategory names), but it doesn't work on the site.

   Does that clear up the situation?

   Somehow it didn't publish to the correct subcategories.

   Thanks for any advice!

   -Ljova

6. jwurster
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   This does seem to work for me. But let me restate what you said.

   You have a Category called Events. This has 2 sub-categories called Romashka and Kronos.
   Events
   --- Romashka
   --- Kronos
   As long as each of those posts has both categories checked, you should be able to see the post in both categories.

   I just did something similar on my blog. Please check it to see if I understand. Under my Teaching Category, I have several sub-categories for each of my classes. I have a post in the Internet sub-category which is also in the php Category.
   Teaching
   --- Access
   --- Excel
   --- Internet
   --- php
   --- PowerPoint
   --- Word

7. ljova
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   J,

   you say:
   <b>You have a Category called Events. This has 2 sub-categories called Romashka and Kronos.
   Events
   --- Romashka
   --- Kronos
   As long as each of those posts has both categories checked, you should be able to see the post in both categories.</b>

   Right. But I do NOT see these posts in either of the subcategories, only under "Events".

   Why not?

8. jwurster
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Since I can't see what you have, I would like you to confirm that when you are managing your categories and you look at each one, does each one have a unique Category slug and name? And do categories Romashka and Kronos point to the Category parent Events?
   If these are all correct, then could you please email me your sidebar.php to jwurster at comcast dot net?
   Thank you

9. TechGnome
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   jwurster - I don't mean to be rude, but here's your sign. It's NOT THE SIDEBAR PROBLEM.... It's listing the POSTS THEMSELVES that's the problem.

   ljova- is there any way you can modify the template to show the categories for each post? It's not clear that the cat struct is right, or that the cat assignment for the posts is right. I want to eliminate those as a possiblity.

   -tg

10. ljova
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Dear Jwurster -- sorry to be so confusing! I highly doubt that the sidbar has much to do with my problem.

    TG -- thanks for stepping in.. I don't want to modify the template unless it's absolutely necessary, but here's a snip of the HTML from the WP Admin-Manage Posts area:

    <b>===========
    <h2>Post Preview (updated when post is saved)</h2>

    Ljova with Romashka @Maia</h3> Filed under: Events, Romashka Shows — @ 10:00 pm</div>

    <b>===============</b>

    As you see, in the WP-Admin, the post is clearly showing up under both the main "Events" and the subcategory "Romashka Shows"... if you look at the hyperlink URLs, there's one correctly being displayed for http://Ljova.com/events/romashka

    however, it doesn't lead to a copy of this post. why not?

    Thanks again,

    Ljova

11. TechGnome
    Moderator
    Posted 4 years ago #

    What do you have for your permalink structure?

    -tg

12. ljova
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Jwurster -- sorry to be so confusing! Somehow, I don't think the sidebar has much to do with my troubles.

    TG - thanks so much for stepping in.

    I've made the change you've requested, though it's making my site look really ugly at the moment -- please take a look!

    http://Ljova.com/events

    What do you think?

    Thanks!,

    Ljova

13. ljova
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    the structure I use is /Êtegory%/%postname%/

14. TechGnome
    Moderator
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Ok, you can take them back out.... I got to see what I wanted....
    actualy, I think your structure is
    /category/% category%/%postname% and for some reason it isn't takeing..... try making a small change to your permalink structure, click the update settings button, then put it back the way you want it, and update settings again. I wonder if the .htaccss file is out of synch.

    -tg

15. ljova
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Hmm. For some reason, the structure is both /category/Êtegory%/%postname%/ and /Êtegory%/%postname%/ .. it works either way -- why, I've no idea.

    I just did what you suggested, and have updated the .htaccess (I used to do it manually, now I've reset the permissions for it to work automatically.)

    But it still won't work.

    Am checking in with my host to see which version of Apache they run, also trying to see if this applies to me.

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