Uncategorized items

Uncategorized Items is the panel at the top of All items that lists everything with no category. It exists for one reason: an item without a category is not shown to guests, and without this panel it would be invisible in both places at once.

The screen states the rule plainly: these items are not assigned to any category, they must be assigned to appear on the site, and they can be deleted if you prefer.

Why an item ends up there

• It was created and saved as a draft without a category — the automatic assignment only runs on publish.
• Its category was deleted, and the item lost its only assignment.
• It was imported without a category selected in Assign category.
• Someone unticked the category while editing and did not tick another.

Fix them

1. Open All items under the menu type.
2. Read the Uncategorized Items panel at the top.
3. For each item, assign the category it belongs to.
4. Confirm it moves down into the correct section of the list.
5. Drag it into position within that section.

If an item there is genuinely obsolete, delete it — but remember that deletion is permanent, with no trash and no restore.

The automatic assignment, and its limits

When a menu item is published without a category, Fenómenus assigns one so nothing published is invisible:

• the first available category of that menu type, if any exist;
• otherwise a new category named after the menu type, created for the purpose.

Wine list items are excluded from this behavior.

This is a safety net, not a filing system. Two consequences to watch for:

• a dish can be published into a section it does not belong to — the automatic choice is the first category, not the right one;
• a category named exactly like the menu type usually means it was created by this fallback, and is worth renaming or emptying.

Keep the panel empty

Check it as part of your routine:

• after any bulk import;
• after deleting a category;
• before a launch;
• during the weekly menu review.

An empty Uncategorized Items panel means every item in that menu type is reachable by guests. It is the fastest single check that a menu is complete.

On a multilingual site

Uncategorized items are listed per menu type in the main working language. Because category assignments are kept aligned across translations when an item is saved, fixing the source item normally fixes its translations too. Verify the translated menu once after a large clean-up.

Related symptoms

If a guest reports a dish they cannot find, this panel is the second thing to check, after the item's status. Both are covered in A menu does not appear.