Title: Categories Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Categories Widget

 *  [John W M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewisliu/)
 * (@lewisliu)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-widget/)
 * The native WP categories widget generates the following code on my TwentyTen 
   theme:
 * `<h3 class="widget-title">Categories</h3><select name='cat' id='cat' class='postform'
   >`
 * _Show posts as dropdown_ and _show post counts_ are selected. I’ve put it at 
   my sidebar.
 * Because of the `id='cat'`, I cannot use the categories widget another time at
   my footer.
 * Does anyone know how can I edit the widget template file to avoid this problem?
 * Thanks!

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

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 * Last reply from: [John W M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewisliu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-widget/)
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