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I'm trying to figure out how to have multiple categories in the sidebar area on some of my sub pages. If you look at the link I've attached, there is a main section and a sidebar section. The main section has multiple blue categories (articles, arts, poetry...) but the side bar only has the one blue category (departments). I would like to add another category in the sidebar section titles Books, and have the book reviews and book essays under that. I tried making another parent category entitles "Books" and making Book essay and Book reviews a sub category, but then nothing changed. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/autumn-2009/

You can add another wp_list_categories call to your sidebar. Might not be easy, depending on the theme; it looks like a paid theme. What's in your sidebar.php?

<?php
$current_issue = get_option('scholar_current_issue');
$current_issue_id = get_cat_id($current_issue);
?>

<div id="left">
<div class="content">

<div class="searchbox">
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">
<input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</form>
</div>

<p class="current-issue-cover nomargintop">
<?php
$cover='/wp-content/uploads/'.get_category($current_issue_id)->category_nicename.'.jpg';
echo ''.'<img src="'.$cover.'">';
?>
Current Issue</p>

<!-- BEGIN: Constant Contact Stylish Email Newsletter Form -->
<div align="center">
<div style="width:160px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<form name="ccoptin" action="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp" target="_blank" method="post" style="margin-bottom:3;">
<font style="font-weight: bold; font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12px; color:#0066FF;">To sign up for our monthly E-newsletter, enter your E-mail address</font>
<input type="text" name="ea" size="20" value="" style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10px; border:1px solid #999999;">
<input type="submit" name="go" value="GO" class="submit" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10px;">
<input type="hidden" name="m" value="1102441289852">
<input type="hidden" name="p" value="oi">
</form>
</div>
</div>
<!-- END: Constant Contact Stylish Email Newsletter Form -->

<h3>Just Posted</h3>
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query(array('category__and'=>array(189),'showposts'=>100,'orderby'=>title,'order'=>ASC)); ?>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<p class="halfmargintop">"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'link text', true); ?></p>
<?php endwhile;?>

<h3>Point of Departure</h3>
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query(array('category__and'=>array($current_issue_id,190),'showposts'=>100,'orderby'=>title,'order'=>ASC)); ?>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<p class="halfmargintop">"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'link text', true); ?></p>
<?php endwhile;?>

<h3>Web Exclusives</h3>
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=225&showposts=1&order=DESC'); ?>
<ul class="menulist">
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>