two category questions…

The code from my blog is

<li id="categories">Categories:
<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="get">
<?php dropdown_cats(); ?>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="go!" />
</form>

so there is a go! button you are missing.

AFAIK, you can’t delete the General Category. I’ve tried. It won’t let you because it’s the “Default”. Even if you have no posts in it and you make another category “default” it won’t let you delete it. 🙁
And I can’t get anything to show up in the dropdown when I try your code. 🙁

Oops, you need
<?php dropdown_cats();
not
<?php dropdown_cats(1,'All Categories','name','asc',0,1,0);

Categories with no posts in them are not pulled up for display on the main page.
If you want that to happen, you would have to hunt down the source code for the dropdown_cats() function and change it I guess.

Okay, well… regardless, the dropdown still isn’t working. Every category but one has tons of posts in it. 🙂 And if categories with no posts aren’t pulled up for display on the main page, why does dropdown_cats offer that as an option?

See this thread?
http://wordpress.org/support/5/5614