Title: User cannot select category
Last modified: February 28, 2022

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# User cannot select category

 *  Resolved [Doc Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijyoung/)
 * (@ijyoung)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-cannot-select-category/)
 * I have set up this site so that individual branches can manage their own pages.
   All have been given the role of author with defined capabilities – including 
   managing categories
    It all worked fine when installed but now, it is not possible
   for the users to select a category. For one of the users one of the categories
   is already ticked and cannot be deselected. I have deactivated and reactivated
   the plugin, to no avail. Also changed one of the users to editor but still could
   not select a category. Your help would be most appreciated.
 * Ian
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fuser-cannot-select-category%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Steve Burge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejburge/)
 * (@stevejburge)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-cannot-select-category/#post-15439624)
 * Hi [@ijyoung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijyoung/)
 * Thanks for using PublishPress.
 * Sorry, our plugin doesn’t control individual categories like this. There may 
   be something going out that is outside our plugin.
 * If you can test more and target something that’s not working correctly with our
   plugin, please post back with steps of how we can re-create the issue.

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 * Last reply from: [Steve Burge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejburge/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-cannot-select-category/#post-15439624)
 * Status: resolved