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If you are using Wordpress on your own server or your web host’s server, then you have probably upgraded recently to Wordpress Version 2.5. I am generally pleased with this upgrade so far, and it appears to work well with my existing plugins - except the Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin. When I reviewed this Plugin for Wordpress last Autumn I was happy with its performance but then there were several mini upgrades of Wordpress software that were incompatible with this plugin. The author of the Plugin offered some extra code on her website but when I tried to use this my sudebar content disappeared with a ‘parse error’ message. Unfortunately Lucia, the writer of the plugin, has not updated her blog for several months now and the Plugin no longer serves to Hide Sponsored Categories. So there appears to be no ongoing support for the plugin. For the moment I have deactivated it until I find another. When I searched for more plugins to serve this purpose, one of the top results was a link to my own blog post - I must be doing something right, then!

Just to remind you of the reason for using this plugin: many bloggers - like me - use lots of different categories for their blog posts, as a kind of filing system. Readers of the blog really want to see the most interesting categories and this plugin promised the facility of keeping outdated or less interesting categories out of teh sidebar list.

Update - 15 June.  The Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin is no longer being supported and is not compatible with the most recent Wordpress software updates so I have removed it from my Wordpress Dashboard.