Categories lose hierarchy order once assigned to post

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I setup some hierarchical categories and when I assign them to a post the widget reflows and loses the hierarchy display. Example:

- Education Services
-- Arts & Archives
--- Fine Arts
-- Reference
-- Health Sciences

When selecting “Education Services” & “Reference” (marked with ‘x’) the widget appears like this:

x Education Services
-x Reference
- Arts & Archives
-- Fine Arts
- Health Sciences

So since the selected (top-level) parent goes to the top, all children besides the selected one look they have lost their parent (even though they actually have not).

I have read some other forums post/support tickets but not much about this issue. Any suggestions?

3 Answers
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You could try out Scribu’s plugin, i believe this addresses the very problem you’re describing which has been reported on Trac a handful of times(but closed/deleted).

Category Checklist Tree by scribu
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-checklist-tree/

Related tickets:

  • http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14723
  • http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10982

Hope that helps.. 🙂

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