Title: Cannot select parent category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot select parent category

 *  [jumesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jumesh/)
 * (@jumesh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-select-parent-category/)
 * I created the parent categories first, then got started on the child cats. But
   I cannot select a parent category for them.
 * I enter the child cat name. The next line says:
 * Category parent: None (Change)
 * I click on change and in the box below comes:
 * ID Name Description Action
    No categories found.
 * I also tried creating the child cats, then going to edit to try to select a parent.
   That gets the same result as above.
 * I just can’t figure this out. Can someone help?
 * Thanks

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 *  [ikbenmartijn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikbenmartijn/)
 * (@ikbenmartijn)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-select-parent-category/#post-1408470)
 * Disable the ‘Category Overload’-plugin and everything should work out just fine.
 *  [duras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duras/)
 * (@duras)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-select-parent-category/#post-1408518)
 * OMG, THANK YOU. I have a huge number of categories and suddenly all of the category
   admin edit screens were blank. The form was there but the fields for category
   name, slug and parent were all empty. I about had a heart attack. This was, indeed,
   the fix. I hadn’t had to edit a category since loading that plugin awhile back
   and had forgotten about it. Thanks again for the info.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [duras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duras/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-select-parent-category/#post-1408518)
 * Status: not resolved

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