Title: Category selection problem
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Category selection problem

 *  Resolved [akedv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ak71/)
 * (@ak71)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-selection-problem/)
 * Hi,
 * when choosing the tags or categorys for automatically generated content you seem
   to use the name of the category for selecting the latest posts. this is not very
   usefull in environments where some category names are in multiple use.
 * we are using some child categories and some of them have the same name. when 
   choosing any of these categories, ALL posts from all categories with this name
   will be selected.
 * example:
 * Latest (main cat)
    -Auto (first level child cat) –buy (second level child cat)–
   sell -realestate –buy –sell
 * Archive
    -Auto –buy –sell -realestate –buy –sell
 * in this case we have the 2nd level categories twice and the 3rd level cats even
   four times.
 * it would be better to select the categories/tags with a checkmark box where you
   could see the whole tree and then save the id for selecting the posts, not the
   name!
 * I can’t believe that I’m really the first one with this problem?
 * Anyway, this is a really GREAT plugin and I do recommend it all the time, not
   just to my own clients!
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 *  Thread Starter [akedv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ak71/)
 * (@ak71)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-selection-problem/#post-6719971)
 * Any hints?
 *  [Wysija](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wysija/)
 * (@wysija)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-selection-problem/#post-6719985)
 * Hi,
 * Unfortunately we don’t have any suggestions for this right now, however, we will
   be addressing this in a future version.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [akedv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ak71/)
 * (@ak71)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-selection-problem/#post-6720023)
 * Any news about this problem?

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 * Last reply from: [akedv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ak71/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-selection-problem/#post-6720023)
 * Status: resolved