Title: Categories function is not working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Categories function is not working

 *  [pavansut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavansut/)
 * (@pavansut)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-function-is-not-working/)
 * Hi, I just upgraded our blog from 1.5 to 2.0.4. Now the categories function stopped
   working. Instead, it doesn’t matter which category link you pick, the same blogs
   show up. I wonder if any one has an idea on how to fix this problem.
 * Please visit [http://www.jayateas.com/blog](http://www.jayateas.com/blog)
 * to see what I mean.
 * Thx in advance.
 * Pavansut

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 *  [Ryan Fitzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanfitzer/)
 * (@ryanfitzer)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-function-is-not-working/#post-461630)
 * Looks like a permalink deal cause this link works [http://www.jayateas.com/blog/?cat=1](http://www.jayateas.com/blog/?cat=1)
 * Try the reverting to default permalink structure (I actually don’t know that 
   much about custom permalinks) and then re-customizing them.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-function-is-not-working/#post-461631)
 * More troubleshooting stuff at the [Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks)
   page.
 * But yeah, odds are just visiting Options -> Permalinks and saving what you already
   have should suffice. Pay attention if WP tells you that you need to manually 
   make changes to the .htaccess file (it’ll try and make them for you, first).
 *  Thread Starter [pavansut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavansut/)
 * (@pavansut)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-function-is-not-working/#post-461704)
 * Changing it to “default” did get the categories working again. But if I select
   any of the other ones, it reverts back to the strange behavior.
 * Thanks guys, selecting default has temporarily fixed the problem. I’ll check 
   out the “permalinks” link above to get to the bottom of it.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-function-is-not-working/#post-461704)
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