Title: Categories Missing from Posts Admin Menu
Last modified: March 15, 2017

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# Categories Missing from Posts Admin Menu

 *  [tekdome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tekdome/)
 * (@tekdome)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-missing-from-posts-admin-menu/)
 * I took over management of an existing site. I noticed that the “categories” sub-
   menu item is missing from the “posts” menu in the admin dashboard. Is it possible
   that the previous site manager disabled this feature, and is there an easy way
   to re-enable it?

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 *  [csloisel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csloisel/)
 * (@csloisel)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-missing-from-posts-admin-menu/#post-8919257)
 * As far as I know there is no way to do this in the admin panel, but you can do
   this easily with code. So it’s possible that your theme or a plugin has removed
   the post category connection.
 *  Thread Starter [tekdome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tekdome/)
 * (@tekdome)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-missing-from-posts-admin-menu/#post-8919371)
 * Thanks for the reply. It doesn’t appear that any plugins are involved. Could 
   be the theme, and I will investigate that. Is it possible that something is hard
   coded into the php?
 *  [csloisel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csloisel/)
 * (@csloisel)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-missing-from-posts-admin-menu/#post-8919439)
 * If it’s in the theme then yes it would be coded into the php. And this isn’t 
   something that really happens by accident, if they disabled categories they probably
   did it for a reason, although I could only speculate what that reason was.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [csloisel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csloisel/).

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [csloisel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csloisel/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-missing-from-posts-admin-menu/#post-8919439)
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