gadgetronica

I just exported my WordPress.com blog (www.delgadoarts.wordpress.com) and imported to self hosted WordPress.org site (www.delgadoarts.com) and in the process, I had a weird issue with categories that I easily solved so I thought i would post for anyone who might run in to this exact situation.

After importing, I could view the categories in the DASHBOARD > POSTS > CATEGORIES section. But, when I went to add the CATEGORIES option to the widget bar, it found 0 categories. I tried a couple of fancy category plug-ins, but nothing located my existing categories. I noticed in the Category review page, it listed 0 posts for each of the categories. But, if I looked at the Quickview of each post under POSTS > ALL POSTS, I could see that the posts were all assigned correctly. So, after some experimenting.

I found you can uncheck all the categories under Quickview of any one of the posts (be sure to note which ones were actually selected for that post so you can correct this later). Hit SAVE.

Then check all the categories in the Quickview in that same post and hit SAVE.

For some reason, this relinks the categories and gets the Category list to recognize them again.

If you have the category widget in your sidebar, you should be able to view all your categories again. Now, you’ll want to go back and return your post back to its correct categories.

So glad it was an easy fix and I hope I save someone else some headaches, too!