Title: Parent / sub-categories issue.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Parent / sub-categories issue.

 *  Resolved [hso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hso/)
 * (@hso)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-sub-categories-issue/)
 * Standard WP 1.5 behaviour when using categories/sub-categories seems to be that
   posts added to a sub-category, also is listed under the parent category. Have
   searched this forum for hints on how to not display the sub-category posts in
   the parent category, but have been unable to find a solultion/plug-in that works
   with WP 1.5. Can anybody help?

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 *  [leliathomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leliathomas/)
 * (@leliathomas)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-sub-categories-issue/#post-247680)
 * If I understand you correctly, you’re asking about why the posts to the subcategory
   have to be in the category as well? Is that it? Sorry if I’ve misunderstood.
 * However, if that’s what you’re asking, that’s just the hierarchy of it. If you
   don’t want posts to that subcategory to be shown as a part of the parent category,
   you’ll need to make the subcategory a parent one, separating it from the original
   parent.
 *  Thread Starter [hso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hso/)
 * (@hso)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-sub-categories-issue/#post-248194)
 * No, not quite. But found a plugin/help on another tread that did the trick. Plugin
   can be found at
    [http://blogwaffe.com/2005/05/31/294/](http://blogwaffe.com/2005/05/31/294/)
 * Tread in this forum [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37954#post-239669](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37954#post-239669)

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 * Last reply from: [hso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hso/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-sub-categories-issue/#post-248194)
 * Status: resolved

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