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I found that when a Wordpress blog doesn’t list all its categories with posts, the reason probably is because of its current presentation theme.

This problem was happening with my private blog: when using the “almost spring 1.2” theme, some categories with posts were NOT listed; the problem went away when reverting to the “Wordpress Default 1.5” presentation.

After trying to figure out why this happened, I came to the conclusion that when a category X has a parent PX, and the corresponding posts are categorized only as X and not as X + PX, then most Wordpress themes will just not list X, assuming that if the parent PX has no entries, than X must be empty too… which might not be the case.

I can understand this logic, but I can also understand that some users build hierarchies of categories, yet they prefer to not check the entire logical branch, when posting.

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