[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11533: Category management issue

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#11533: Category management issue
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 Reporter:  Alkorr          |       Owner:            
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  2.9       
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:            
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 Hi, I have several problems managing categories. I use these categories:

 Books

 - Reviews

 -- Fantasy

 -- RPG

 Videogames

 - Reviews

 -- Fantasy

 -- RPG

 When I write a post, I only select the category Fantasy (in Books >
 Reviews) and the <?php the_category(' > ', 'multiple'); ?> function works
 perfectly and gives: Books > Reviews > Fantasy.

 But when I go to the Edit Posts Page, there is the list of my posts and
 when I look at the Categories column, only 'Fantasy' appears. So I don't
 know if it's Fantasy from the Books main category, or Fantasy from the
 Games main category. I have to put my mouse on Fantasy and look at the
 status bar to finally find out what's the parent category. Not really
 useful when you use Wordpress as a CMS with multiple authors, managing
 posts becomes very difficult.

 But it leads to another problem: when I open this post and look at the
 category list on the right, Fantasy is selected but it's not hierarchical
 at all, the selected cateogry appears on top of all others, so I have no
 idea what is the category parent: Books or Games? I have to go back to the
 Edit Posts Page, put my mouse on Fantasy and look at the status bar to
 finally find out what's the parent category. Again, it's very confusing
 when you manage authors and their posts...

 The only way to have the full categories selected to appear on the Edit
 Posts Page and to be shown (hierarchically) when you open the post, is to
 select the parent category (Books), child (Reviews) and finally the last
 one (Fantasy). But then another problem arrives: the <?php
 the_category(''); ?> function doesn't work anymore, displyaing all the
 categories: Books > Reviews Books > Fantasy Books > Review > Fantasy.

 Totally weird!?!

 Any logical explanation to this?

 Any help is welcome, it must be bug.
 Thank you!

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