Title: Categories stopped working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Categories stopped working

 *  [AltarEarth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altarearth/)
 * (@altarearth)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-stopped-working/)
 * I have tried everything I can think of… I have deleted all categories! Posts 
   will not let me make sub categories at all! When all my categories where up I
   had main and sub categories. now when I update the page the new categories disappear!
 * Even when I post a new article… I create a new category and the main will post
   and stay! but when I create a sub category to the main, I click add new and then
   it appears without being checked! I publish the page and get nothing!
 * I scrubbed the whole site and reloaded wordpress to my server… And imported the
   document to find the same problem!
 * Can a banner or html link effect my categories?
    I don’t know what I did… Can
   a post effect the wordpress platform or do I have a deeper problem?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-stopped-working/#post-1746976)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-stopped-working/#post-1746976)
 * Status: not resolved

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