Title: wp 1.5 category problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp 1.5 category problem

 *  [bounce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bounce/)
 * (@bounce)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-15-category-problem/)
 * when i upgrade my wp 1.2 to 1.5 i get an error in my writing section on category
   selection. this is the error;
    “WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘cat_id’
   in ‘field list’] SELECT cat_id FROM wp_categories WHERE category_parent = 0 ORDER
   BY cat_name”
 * how can i fix this? please help

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-15-category-problem/#post-136499)
 * You did delete all the 1.2 files before uploading the 1.5 files ?
 * If running upgrade.php again does not solve this, do the above.
 *  Thread Starter [bounce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bounce/)
 * (@bounce)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-15-category-problem/#post-136511)
 * nope… it didn’t solve the problem
 *  Thread Starter [bounce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bounce/)
 * (@bounce)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-15-category-problem/#post-136512)
 * nope… it didn’t solve the problem

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-15-category-problem/#post-136512)
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