wordpress sidebar issue with wp_list_categories showing NO Categories

Question

So on my wordpress install. I am trying to display category list in the sidebar but having issue with wp_list_categories function. There are handful of categories in the system but this function just prints "NO Categories".

Can't figure out why.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have at least 1 Post in every category you want to display

2. wp_list_categories should be outside of the wordpress LOOP. You'll probably need to provide the sidebar's code before the LOOP's code.

Answer 2

You're using the right function, but you need to adjust a parameter for it. You are getting

No Categories

simply because the categories defined in the WordPress taxonomy have no posts assigned to them.

Try passing the hide_empty argument to wp_list_categories( $args ); 1 for true and 0 for false.

wp_list_categories('hide_empty=0');

This example will show all categories regardless of their post count.

Reference the wp_list_categories Codex page for more help.