Categories created - but not fully deleted - in Ribbon theme BUG?
Karen
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I saw a similar item for this and was able to reproduce the behavior. Is it a feature or a bug . . . I happen to be using a copy of the Ribbon theme, and on the Blog page I was getting these phantom, inactive categories in the sidebar. Viewed the page in edit mode - the block for Category entry clearly says "none" yet when I view the source for the page, I can see them listed and marked inactive. I added a new category, thinking that would reset the field, and my new category showed up as active. I then deleted that new category, but it didn't go away - just became inactive. I checked and found that sure enough, the categories showed up in the Page Inspector (including the new one I'd made). When I deleted all the category listings, the sidebar finally cleared.
So there seems to be some disconnect between deleting a category in a blog entry, and deleting it from the sidebar. I suppose it is a quasi feature - you might want to delete a category from a particular blog entry, but not delete it from the site. But if there is no other page that uses this category - such as the phantom stuff that's present in a new blank page - the category shouldn't display. Maybe a check to not display any category marked inactive? Or a pick-list to select from active categories? Maybe it's fixed in a later version?
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Nik Fletcher on 09 Sep, 2010 03:09 PM
Hi Karen
Thanks for your feedback! We'll look into correcting this in the future, but the stock themes that we add to a blog are shown as inactive until they're added to a post. It's a little confusing but we'll be looking to refine this in future!
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Kind regards,
Nik
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3 Posted by Karen Dorrough on 09 Sep, 2010 08:50 PM
Thanks for the quick reply.
I think the bigger problem is adding the stock categories in the first
place because it makes it difficult to figure out what's going on. If
I add a category, delete it from an entry, and it shows up as inactive
then I can understand more easily what's going on. But it was
confusing to track down things like "apple, humor" when I hadn't added
them and couldn't figure out where they were coming from. Could be
handled in the documentation. As long as users can search the
knowledgebase and find the answer. It's not life threatening.
Karen
Support Staff 4 Posted by Nik Fletcher on 10 Sep, 2010 09:46 AM
Hi Karen
No worries: we'll definitely look to improve this!
Cheers
Nik
Nik Fletcher closed this discussion on 13 Sep, 2010 09:55 AM.