So I'm messing with the Blog feature as of now and managed to create 3 different categories for two different blogs with no way to delete these categories. The manage categories only allows to rename the category how about a delete button too? No listing even in the AdminCP to control blog categories.

Needless to say I attempted to select another category website blog 2 and then delete that blog category and it deleted ALL CATEGORIES under the website blog, website blog 2 and website blog 3. Are now all gone and so is my 2 Blog posts I made. Now I though ok, I keep my deleted content for 30 days. Nope all content is gone forever.

Managing categories on the Blog is extremely difficult and tools for managing mistakes are poor at best here. Unless I'm just not seeing the control I'm missing or just under educated for version 5. The picture above that whole category is GONE and no trace left.

How are you adding the categories ?

I don't seem to have that issue are you using the latest version 5.0.5 beta 2 ?

are you adding sub categories to the main category

then add a child category to the main category image below

this is how I have mine setup

this is how it looks on main site

Not sure what the problem is on your end but everything is working as it should on my site.

Hopefully you have it solved

I can delete mine.

5.0.4 version and adding just like you and ended up not understanding the blog function being there is no manual or information on the new software so I'm just trying to learn how to make blog entries and found that I created 3 categories the same name then attempted to delete the 2 and 3rd and ended up deleting ALL CONTENT from the blog. My screen does not look anything like your but what mine shows above.

If you have deleted categories in the admin CP, then you will indeed have deleted the content within them. It does say this on the popup when you delete the categories and give you the option to move.

The ones you were talking about originally, arent the main categories set up in admin CP, but the blog entry categories set up on the front end. I've added a bug as it appears there isnt a delete button on those

 

If you have deleted categories in the admin CP, then you will indeed have deleted the content within them

• Website news

• website news 2

• website news 3

Now I moved all blogs to the news (no number) category. Then proceeded to delete the website news 2. All 3 categories disappeared. Maybe its a mistake by me not understanding the controls. It was weird. I recreated my website news then I requested for me to create a new category, but there already is one in the list. The prompt doesn't give a option to use the exist category. Here is where the doubles start. I managed to get it working but its a trick between attempting to delete the renamed (2) or (3) version to be sure I won't delete the functional category.

Keep in mind that there are categories to categorize your blogs and categories to categorize your blog entries within your blog.

When creating a blog entry, you need to select to create a new category or use an existing one:

I don't get that; I just get the "create" option; the other option of using an existing category is missing.

Edited Tuesday at 08:43 PM1 day by Mopar1973Man

 

I don't get that; I just get the "create" option; the other option of using an existing file is missing.

If you do not have a category available for your Blog, you will need to create one.