I realize this is an old thread but, I wanted to post my solution in case anyone is having the same issue. In theme-widgets.php I duplicated the code for the category widget and it seems to work...
I realize this is an old thread but, I wanted to post my solution in case anyone is having the same issue. In theme-widgets.php I duplicated the code for the category widget and it seems to work...
If it's of any help to anyone I figured out how to do this. In theme-widgets.php you need to modify the parameters for wp_list_categories change the depth parameter to depth=0 like below.