Title: [Plugin: Custom Post Widget] Trouble adding "category" taxonomy
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Custom Post Widget] Trouble adding "category" taxonomy

 *  Resolved [dbraphael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbraphael/)
 * (@dbraphael)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-widget-trouble-adding-category-taxonomy/)
 * I have place the following code in my functions.php file and cannot seem to register
   the category taxonomy to use with Content Block. Any thoughts on why this may
   be occurring?
 * `
    function reg_tag() { register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'content_block');}
   add_action('init', 'reg_tag');
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Johan van der Wijk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanderwijk/)
 * (@vanderwijk)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-widget-trouble-adding-category-taxonomy/#post-3019908)
 * To try to keep the plugin as simple as possible to use, I deliberately did not
   include support for categories. I’m not sure why your code is not working as 
   it looks completely valid but as a test you could try modifying the plugin code
   and include the taxonomy directly on line 119 of post-widget.php to see if that
   works.
 * ‘taxonomies’ => array(‘category’, ‘post_tag’)
 * To display a category on the front end you also seem to have to change exclude_from_search
   to ‘false’. See: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type)
 *  Thread Starter [dbraphael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbraphael/)
 * (@dbraphael)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-widget-trouble-adding-category-taxonomy/#post-3019911)
 * Thanks for the note. I actually only use the categories to help filter the content
   on the admin side as I have a a fairly large site.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-post-widget-trouble-adding-category-taxonomy/#post-3019911)
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