Title: Default category question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Default category question

 *  Resolved [creativechick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativechick/)
 * (@creativechick)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-category-question/)
 * I just upgraded and now I see a post in the default category, but there’s nothing
   there. I’ve never used it.
 * I click on the number link and it tells me that I’m looking for something that’s
   not here.
 * I did install the Ultimate Category Excluder plugin, but it’s showing through
   the sidebar still. Since it’s not empty, it’s showing, but there’s nothing in
   the posts in that category. I’ve checked a few times.
 * Any help would be great, thank you in advance!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-category-question/#post-550565)
 * Use [phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyAdmin) and look at the `wp_post2cat`
   table. If you find no record there that ‘connects’ a post to that category id,
   then maybe just zeroing out (value before you change should be 1) the value of
   the ‘category count’ field in the `wp_categories` table will fix the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [creativechick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativechick/)
 * (@creativechick)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-category-question/#post-550616)
 * Thank you!
 * I did fix it by changing the default category and then just deleted that one.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-category-question/#post-550616)
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