Title: Making custom posts work with categories?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Making custom posts work with categories?

 *  Resolved [montrealist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spectrus/)
 * (@spectrus)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-custom-posts-work-with-categories/)
 * Hello,
 * Just installed the plugin, trying to play around with it. One thing: can’t get
   the custom posts to show up under categories.
 * I create a custom post type, say Activities. And I want to categorize different
   activities with WordPress categories. Can I do that? I tried checking the “Categories”
   option under “Built-in Taxonomies”, and then categorizing an Activity, but it
   does not show up under that category, only the standard posts do.
 * What am I doing wrong? Is it even possible? Or do I need to edit category.php?

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 *  [Ilir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipruthi/)
 * (@ipruthi)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-custom-posts-work-with-categories/#post-2239204)
 * Looking for same functionality on a different plugin. Still, having the same 
   problem: I have a FAQ custom post type and I want different categories. However
   the custom post type doesn’t show posts under different categories I have setup.
 * If anyone knows how to fix this, it would be very helpful.
 * Thanks!
 *  [andydlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andydlf/)
 * (@andydlf)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-custom-posts-work-with-categories/#post-2239207)
 * I have the same problem boys. I’ve contacted the developer from his own blog.
   I hope he replies soon
 *  [andydlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andydlf/)
 * (@andydlf)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-custom-posts-work-with-categories/#post-2239208)
 * ok after giving it some thought, I think it’s because the ‘categories’ and ‘tags’
   that come with the plugin as default are actually to be treated as custom taxonomies
   🙂 which is unfortunate but also makes sense.
 * This works: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-type-with-custom-taxonomy-wp_query-1?replies=34](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-posts-type-with-custom-taxonomy-wp_query-1?replies=34)
 *  [andydlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andydlf/)
 * (@andydlf)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-custom-posts-work-with-categories/#post-2239213)

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