Title: Create Article – missing categories
Last modified: October 9, 2023

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# Create Article – missing categories

 *  [tofo1802](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tofo1802/)
 * (@tofo1802)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-article-missing-categories/)
 * Good evening,
 * since a few days i got a problem regarding the categories i can choose while 
   i am creating a new article. There are some categories shown but nearly 50% of
   them are missing in the categories section.
 * When i save the article as a draft and go back to article section i can do a 
   QuickEdit. When i choose this i can see all categories and choose from all.
 * Why all categories are not shown when working in “Create Article” section? Do
   you have any idea what this might be? As the categories are still there i am 
   little bit confused about it.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-article-missing-categories/#post-17114435)
 * The block editor uses a different meta box callback than quick edit does. The
   categories listed in the block editor are the “most popular” terms. You need 
   to use the search field to access less popular terms. OTOH the quick edit meta
   box is a full list, there’s no search functionality. IIRC it’s still limited 
   to the first 100 terms found, so if you have more than that searching is the 
   best way to access what you want.
 * Why the difference? IDK, sorry. I think it’s because the block editor is very
   resource intensive and it’s more efficient to only list the most popular instead
   of all of them. Quick edit takes less resource so we can better afford to make
   a full list. But I’m only guessing about this.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-article-missing-categories/#post-17114435)
 * Status: not resolved

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