Title: Problem with categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with categories

 *  [derm123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/derm123/)
 * (@derm123)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-categories-6/)
 * I’ve just installed wordpress 3.0.4 on my windows XP PC and want to use it for
   keeping a blog of family trips photos etc. I’m using Apache 2.2.8, Mysql 4.1.22
   and php 5.2.5.
 * When I point my browser to the site I get the following
    [http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/NewInstall.png](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/NewInstall.png)
 * I want to add some categories so I go to the admin page posts->categories and
   add a category as so
    [http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/CreatingCategory.png](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/CreatingCategory.png)
 * press enter and I get this (all looks good
    [http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/CategoryCreated.png](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/CategoryCreated.png)
 * finally edit the post, but no categories are displayed to add ????
    [http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/updatepost.png](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff40/derm123/updatepost.png)
 * I expected to see my new category in the list ?
 * Can anybody help please

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 *  Thread Starter [derm123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/derm123/)
 * (@derm123)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-categories-6/#post-1865963)
 * OK, I’ve resolved this. It was my database configuration that was incorrect. 
   Thanks to this blog [http://mingfai.ma/2010/08/28/wordpress-categories-tags-not-working-explained/](http://mingfai.ma/2010/08/28/wordpress-categories-tags-not-working-explained/)
   I tried to play around with some SQL and came up with this
 * SELECT *
    FROM wp_terms t left join wp_term_taxonomy w on t.term_id = w.term_id
   and taxonomy=’category’ left join wp_term_relationships r on w.term_taxonomy_id
   = r.term_taxonomy_id left join wp_posts p on r.object_id = p.id
 * Which showed my posts with the categories (I’m using mysql Query browser) but
   when I added an order clause at the end (order by r.object_id) it did not work.
 * There was an issue with my temporary directory. I changed the my.ini file (found
   at C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1) to include the line tmpdir=C:/temp
 * Everything now works.

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 * Last reply from: [derm123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/derm123/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-categories-6/#post-1865963)
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