Title: Removing default category "uncategorized"
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Removing default category "uncategorized"

 *  [giuliagenuina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giuliagenuina/)
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 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-default-category-uncategorized/)
 * Hi there,
    I’ve succeeded in removing the default widget, but I can’t remove 
   the default “uncategorized” category which is still appearing on the right sidebar.
   In the backend it can’t be deleted, do you know how to remove it?
 * thank you!
    giuliag

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