Title: category issue
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# category issue

 *  [cojito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cojito/)
 * (@cojito)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-issue/)
 * WP 2.0.1
 * in the admin/manage area i’ve created a new category (immigration/legal issues)
   on my page at thepanamapages.com. i checked the box and my new posting shows 
   a link to this new category. but the new category does not show up as a link 
   on the sidebar. i can’t figure out why. i’m using a WP theme (operate) downloaded
   from the theme viewer. but the link provided to the author of this theme is not
   valid. so i can’t ask him what the deal is. no doubt this is an easy tweak but
   i’m still new at this. is there something obvious i’m missing? thanks.

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-issue/#post-355233)
 * If you don’t have a post actually in this category it won’t show. Post something,
   it’ll show up. There’s a tweak you can do in the code somewhere to make empty
   cats show, I’m not sure what to call it to make it show up in goog search though,
   sorry.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-issue/#post-355236)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags#Category_tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags#Category_tags)
 * Or specifically: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats)
   and check the parms optionall, all and hide_empty.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-issue/#post-355236)
 * Status: not resolved

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