Unselectable categories

I have now created a new category.

I can see that category in the backend.

I cannot see it in the frontend. I checked the permissions. They look ok to me.. I am not really sure whats happening.

Thank you

I also deleted categories. Cannot see them in the category section backend.

But I can see them(deleted categories) when I add a new category(Content/categories/add a new category)... Is this hosting related?

Because when I edit a css file, it doesnt update immediately. Need to wait a few minutes to see the changes.

Ok I managed to delete them they were unpublished for some reason...

Now when I create a new category that I created before. I cannot delete it .

This is the message I am gettin

You cannot delete category: Wellness Solutions. There are still items associated.

I deleted all the items associated with that category. I tried deleting it. It is still giving me the same issue.

Did you clean trash ?
Use trash filterin your category list and item list

I deleted them via database manually. And yes they were trashed but still could see them.

I have just decided to set up the site from scratch.


The site was acting weird so its faster to set it up from scratch than trying to fix the errors.
The reason that might have caused this issue was I imported articles using and caregories using j2xml component into flexicontent.

I had existing articles and it override some articles. Then i started getting these category problems.

Anyways...

I installed the site on php 5.5 its running pretty good at the moment.

I got one more question:

If i uninstall flexicontent, what happens to the custom fields like file upload?

Do they stick to the joomla article? I am just curious how it would displayed after uninstalling it.

Thank you.