Title: Categories and Posts issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Categories and Posts issue

 *  [mundomar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mundomar/)
 * (@mundomar)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-and-posts-issue/)
 * Hello,
 * I am quite new to wordpress and am in the process of setting up my site now.
 * I have added categories which I have added to the menu and I now want posts to
   appear under each category they are assigned to. I have done a few posts and 
   assigned them to different categories however all posts show in all categories,
   rather than ONLY the ONE they are asigned to.
 * Help would be appreciated!
    Thanks 🙂

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-and-posts-issue/#post-2974348)
 * Are you sure they are not also all in the uncategorized category?
 * When a post has multiple categories, WP uses the the one with lowest id # and
   uncat is ‘0’ I believe. The result of my note would be your issue above.
 * If it’s not that, then switch to default theme to rule out theme issue(s) and
   deactivate plugins to rule them out as issue(s).
 *  Thread Starter [mundomar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mundomar/)
 * (@mundomar)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-and-posts-issue/#post-2974365)
 * Hi Seacoast!
 * Thanks so much for your reply!
 * So, I went to each of the posts (I have only done 4 so far to test how they will
   look). Changed their categories all to Uncategorized. Checked the site and all
   my categories via the menu at the top were empty, with posts on the home page(
   as they should be).
 * Then I went back and allocated them back to each category (making sure to uncheck
   the uncategorized box) and checked back on the site and each category via the
   menu at the top has all 4 posts in each.
 * I switched the template back to the twenty eleven or whatever it comes preinstalled
   with and it looks like they are correctly in each category. (Although I am not
   a fan of the template)
 * Do you know if there is a way to get them to work in my theme correctly? I am
   using advantico at the moment and would really like for them to be on separate
   sections/pages if possible but am a complete novice at this… any solutions you
   can think of? Basically I have 3 topics, one for past, one for present and one
   for recipes… and need to keep the posts all separate
 * Much appreciated!!
 *  Thread Starter [mundomar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mundomar/)
 * (@mundomar)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-and-posts-issue/#post-2974472)
 * Still playing with the site, getting the posts to look pretty good. Just need
   to figure out how to get them to stay within their own categories.
 * Any suggestions would be awesome! Thanks guys!

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/)

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mundomar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mundomar/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-and-posts-issue/#post-2974472)
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