Sites under Multisite having category issues

  • Resolved dragnmuse

    (@dragnmuse)


    4 months ago

    Okay, so this is very weird and I can’t figure out what is going on. I apologize for the vague title, but details are below.

    I’m running WP Multisite. There are 26 subsites. Of those 26, two are having a problem with categories. The whole multisite is run just by me, so I’m running the same theme and plugins for all 26.

    For both the sites that aren’t working, on the categories page it says “No categories found.” Not even the default category is listed.

    However, underneath that, for one of the sites, it shows “1,168 items” and has page navigation for 10 pages. The second site shows “273 items.” I would say both these counts are accurate for the number of categories on those sites.

    Already published posts still have their categories.

    From the Posts page, clicking on a category name sorts to all the posts in that category. On the front of the blog, clicking the link to a category takes you to the category page. So the categories are still there and still functioning for already published posts.

    I tried adding a test category from the Categories page and it seemed to be added. However, a new post didn’t show that category as available to add the post to. So, I added a test category to that post from the post screen. It shows the test category on the Posts screen, but still not on the Categories page. And the test category originally added directly to the Categories page wasn’t there when I went back to it.

    I am truly lost. As I said, everything about all 26 blogs is the same for theme and plugins. The sites that are working don’t have hundreds of categories, but that’s the only difference I can find between working and non working.

    Hopefully someone can give me some insight. Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 4 months ago by James Huff. Reason: moved to Networking WordPress since this is a multisite issue
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  • threadi

    (@threadi)

    It sounds to me like the term counter is not set correctly on the 2 websites. Have you tried creating new categories? Then the counter should actually be reset.

    If that doesn’t work, you could possibly solve this via WP CLI: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/cli/commands/term/recount/ – but here you have to pay attention to your multisite structure.

    Thread Starter dragnmuse

    (@dragnmuse)

    As it turns out, I needed to do the “update database” function. Then everything was back to normal and both of the test categories I added were visible.

    If anyone comes across this from a Google search, try this. I didn’t get a banner notification from inside WordPress and I have things set to automatically update, so I forgot that was a function. I was trying to figure out how to assure the database wouldn’t carry through the same problem if I did a fresh install, which was my next troubleshooting step. That’s when I remembered the Update Database function.

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