Number of drafts displayed wrong

  • I am seeing a strange issue with a wordpress install. It is showing one extra draft count number in parenthesis more than the actual number of drafts in the list view.

    If I remove all drafts from the list view it still displays a draft count of (1).

    Any ideas where to look in order to see if there is a draft page stuck somewhere that is not shown in the Pages section? It is bothering my OCD.

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  • There may be an incomplete data record in the database. You could use https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-optimize/ to check and clean up your database tables – this may solve the problem. Be sure to create a backup first.

    Thread Starter classyux

    (@classyux)

    Thanks for that. I did not look deeply into it yet, it was just an OCD thing. I could see how it could have happened when installing a theme or something. It is a fresh starter site so even if I borked the whole thing and had to start over, no biggie.

    That is difficult to judge. Especially when plugins interfere with the creation of pages, a lot can happen (depending on the code quality of the plugins). Or even an incomplete deletion process due to a server error. There can be many reasons.

    Thread Starter classyux

    (@classyux)

    I ran that optimization plugin and it didn’t solve the issue. Shows number of drafts as (2) but only one page shows up in the drafts list view. I am not going to obsess about it, but when I see things like that it makes me want to fix it, especially on a new site build that I am not deep into and otherwise would not have noticed.

    Thread Starter classyux

    (@classyux)

    I am trying out BoldGrid for a couple of sites (including this one) and I found a create_post function that inserts a ‘post_title’ => ‘Block Preview Page’, and “Block Preview Page” is the row in my DB that has the extra Draft status in the post_status column that’s not showing up on that page. Nothing I am going to worry about because if I manually delete it, the plugin will insert it again whenever that function is called. I think it has to do with previewing block-based content on a page when using the page builder view.

    Just FYI in case someone else comes across this, so maybe this thread shows up in a search on the issue.

    Thread Starter classyux

    (@classyux)

    Nice. When you call the guid URL in a browser, you get a page with the following message…

    Block Preview Page
    This page is used by the Post and Page Builder plugin and should not be edited.

    So that answers that question. Just FYI for anyone else who sees something weird like that.

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