Number of categories viewable/searchable on blog?

eppyharmon · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 14

Am I limited to a specific number of viewable/searchable categories on my blog? If so, how are they selected/ordered? I seem to have created many more categories than are viewable/searchable on my blog, creating them as I have posted articles. I'd like all the categories I have accumulated when posting articles to be viewable/searchable on my blog, preferably in order of popularity over the life of my blog, if that is something you do, or if not, I'd like to know how to order them myself. Can you please help me with this problem or suggest what I need to study more to understand categories better? I'm pretty sure I have well over 300 categories.... Thank you! Nancy/Eppy
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john · Site Admin Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 3434

My goodness - you have almost as many categories as you have articles!

Your control panel shows 178 categories, and that's how many I see on your blog home page, so that seems to match up...

Before I answer your question, I would like to suggest that you have far more categories than is probably necessary. Readers read blogs, not categories. I can't see the benefit to your visitor, especially a new one, to see such a long list of categories.

In any case, yes we have a limit of 300 categories, any more than that and your blog display slows down too much. We have no way for your visitor to search categories, or for you to show which are the most popular. And you can change the display order of your categories.