Title: Categories import are empty – resolved – update code
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# Categories import are empty – resolved – update code

 *  [calli59](https://wordpress.org/support/users/calli59/)
 * (@calli59)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-import-are-empty-resolved-update-code/)
 * Hi ,
 * I just want to share the solution to my problem.
    When i import the rss… The 
   categories were created but the title stayed empty.
 * I modified the code like this and it worked fine.
 * You just need to find this line `foreach ($categories as $category) {`
 * under the line you should find and replace the line `$categories[$cat_index] 
   = $wpdb->escape( html_entity_decode( $category ) );`
 * by this one : `$categories[$cat_index] = str_replace(array('<![CDATA[', ']]>'),'',
   $wpdb->escape( trim($category) ));`
 * Hope this can help.
    Cécile
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