Title: Widget keeps displaying categories
Last modified: June 22, 2020

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# Widget keeps displaying categories

 *  Resolved [emmalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmalaa/)
 * (@emmalaa)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-keeps-displaying-categories/)
 * Since installing a cache plugin and Autoptimize, I’ve been having problems with
   the WPP widget.
 * At first it displayed bullet points and the thumbnails were oversized.
 * I looked on this forum and found [this link](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#is-wordpress-popular-posts-compatible-with-caching-plugins),
   so I enabled the Ajaxify widget and clearing cache.
 * I went back to the widget and saved for a Cardview Compact, without categories
   being displayed. Yet, the categories still display on on my site?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwidget-keeps-displaying-categories%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-keeps-displaying-categories/#post-13020947)
 * Hi [@emmalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmalaa/),
 * Thanks for opening a new topic and for the additional details.
 * > I went back to the widget and saved for a Cardview Compact, without categories
   > being displayed.
 * Alright, so it’s not clear to me what you mean with “I went back to the widget
   and saved for a Cardview Compact, without categories being displayed.”
 * Does that mean that you unchecked the Taxonomy checkbox but the widget is still
   displaying the category?
 *  Thread Starter [emmalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmalaa/)
 * (@emmalaa)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-keeps-displaying-categories/#post-13021280)
 * Yes, that’s it.
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-keeps-displaying-categories/#post-13021374)
 * Alright, that might be a bug in the plugin. Will have a look once my workload
   eases up a bit.
 * For the time being please go to **Widgets > [Your Sidebar Name] > WordPress Popular
   Posts > HTML Markup settings**, and under **Post HTML Markup** find and delete
   the `{taxonomy}` Content Tag. Scroll down and click on **Save** to apply changes.
   That should remove the category link from your popular posts.
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-keeps-displaying-categories/#post-13035418)
 * Yep, bug confirmed and fixed! I’ll release a new version of the plugin with this
   fix (and other changes) ASAP.
 * Thanks for reporting it, [@emmalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmalaa/)!
 *  Thread Starter [emmalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmalaa/)
 * (@emmalaa)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-keeps-displaying-categories/#post-13050555)
 * No worries, and thanks for fixing [@hcabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)!

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 * Last reply from: [emmalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmalaa/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-keeps-displaying-categories/#post-13050555)
 * Status: resolved