Title: Categories Error Message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Categories Error Message

 *  Resolved [altstatten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altstatten/)
 * (@altstatten)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-error-message/)
 * Playing around with the category tags and ended up with this:
 * > WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘cat_13’ in ‘order clause’]
   >  SELECT*
   > FROM wp_categories WHERE cat_ID > 0 ORDER BY cat_13 ASC
 * Whassitmean and how do I fix it? Please.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-error-message/#post-591011)
 * What were you **playing around** with?
 * If you are making changes to theme files (or any file for that matter) it is 
   always best to make a copy of the file before changing it.
 *  Thread Starter [altstatten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altstatten/)
 * (@altstatten)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-error-message/#post-591013)
 * I did. Replaced it with the original and I still get this message.
 * <?php wp_list_cats(‘include=7,12,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,
   
   29,30,31,32,33,34&hide_empty=0&show_count=1′); ?>
 * [http://www.thedonuttheory.com](http://www.thedonuttheory.com)
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-error-message/#post-591015)
 * I am not seeing the error at the URL you mentioned.
 *  Thread Starter [altstatten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altstatten/)
 * (@altstatten)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-error-message/#post-591053)
 * Odd. I cleared my cache several times, etc. and the error always showed. Now 
   it’s fine. Thanks anyway!

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 * Last reply from: [altstatten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altstatten/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-error-message/#post-591053)
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