Have you added a WordPress subcategory under a parent category and it still shows like a separate main category on the WordPress sidebar? Have you wondered how to get subcategories to show under the parent category on the WordPress sidebar?

This is a short little WordPress Guide that will show you how easy it is to get your categories and subcategories to show like this:

This WordPress guide assumes your theme is widget ready and you know how to Work with WordPress text widgets. In your WordPress dashboard go to Presentation, Widgets. If the categories widget in not show on the sidebar drag it from the available widgets area up to the sidebar. Now click the little blue icon on it to open it. Click the box next to Show hierarchy, close the widget and and click save changes. I told you this guide would be short didn’t I?

Read more about text widgets here: Work with WordPress text widgets.

This post was inspired by a question from a recnt client of mine I just setup a new WordPress blog for. Check it out here: Living Yoga Blog

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