Title: Plugin is using Post Categories
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin is using Post Categories

 *  Resolved [amicatech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amicatech/)
 * (@amicatech)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-is-using-post-categories/)
 * Hello
 * I have used this plugin before in the past and it’s great so I decided to use
   it again only I have found an issue…
 * When I go to the Publications menu and select categories it has the categories
   I use in posts and when I add one it also adds it the post categories. I would
   like separate categories….is this an issue or is this what it is meant to be 
   like?
 * Any help is greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-publication-archive/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-publication-archive/)

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 *  Thread Starter [amicatech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amicatech/)
 * (@amicatech)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-is-using-post-categories/#post-4998768)
 * I have tired using an older version of the plugin but it does the same…
 * So just to confirm….
 * When I add a category it also adds that category to the Posts Categories and 
   when I delete it from the Posts Categories it also deletes it from the publication
   categories.
 * Also when I add the shortcode [wp-publication-archive categories=”DOCS – Accounts”]
   with ‘DOCS – Accounts” being the name of my category it comes back with…
 * > Sorry, but the categories you passed to the wp-publication-archive shortcode
   > do not match any publication categories.
   > You passed: DOCS – Accounts
 * Please help me I am pretty desperate.
 *  Plugin Author [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * (@ericmann)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-is-using-post-categories/#post-4998784)
 * I took a look, and figured out the issue. You’re using a dash in your category
   names, which WordPress auto-converts to an `–` when presenting the categories
   on the category list page. It looks like you copied the presentation of the category
   name into your shortcode rather than the category name itself.
 * This is what’s triggering the “no publications found.”
 * As for why categories are shown for both posts and publications, this is intentional.
   The Categories taxonomy is shared between both post types intentionally. I apologize
   if this causes any inconvenience.

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 * Last reply from: [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-is-using-post-categories/#post-4998784)
 * Status: resolved