Categories Stopped Updating Months Ago

Just an update, the category links appeared to have stopped working in February of 2012, rather than February 2013.

I just wanted to add another update because the more I look around the more issues I find.

In Internet Explorer and Chrome, my two most used browsers, when I click on the category links not only are they old, from February of 2012 most of them, but the sidebar is old as well. My ads aren’t showing properly, but the real eye opener is that a plugin (Alkivia SidePosts) is still being displayed even though I deleted it today and it was deactivated before that, for months now. I have noticed that particular problem for a while for chalked it up to my cache plugin and kinda for got about it.

Anyway, in Firefox in Safari the categories look and work fine.
I can’t for the life of me figure out what is wrong or what my visitors are seeing. Are they seeing the screwed up category and sidebar like myself, or are they getting the updated version like I get on Safari and Firefox only.

Here is a category: https://brownsista.com/category/black-female-celebrities/

The first article should be “What Was She Thinking,” but I am seeing this: https://tinypic.com/r/nb6oo5/5

I have figured out most of my problem, though I can’t quite explain how except to say the issue required me to change tags if I had categories with the same name or even similar.

The final issue however is my Lazyest Gallery Page which when activated for some reason shows here (brownsista.com/images) and here (https://brownsista.com/brown-sista-photo-gallery/). The Gallery page had the slug “images” which I changed to “brown-sista-photo-gallery.” That of course solved my problem and the Gallery page dispalyed properly. Problem is, unlike Categories, when the Page slug was changed it didn’t update the page, it seemed to create two and though the Lazyest Gallery is presently deactivated, it still shows up at brownsista.com/images/ and should not.

Again, it displays this way only while logged out. Logged in I get a 404 pages as I should.

Should anyone be able to help I would be greatly appreciative ??

It’s hard to figure out what’s happening without actually seeing how the admin is set up. Here are a few questions, which may seem rather silly:

1. Do you have Administrator access? If so, is the data set correctly in Settings > General?
2. What was the last date you posted something? Did you assign it a category
3. Have you tried disabling plugins to see if it affects how the blog works?

I hope this helps point you in the right direction.

Thank you for responding.

I do have Admin access.
I last posted an article today and yes, I assigned it a category.
Yes, I tried disabling plugins and none seemed to fix the problem.

As stated above I solved the category problem via changing tags/slugs, ext. It appears I cannot have a tag and category by the same name.

It is now this one Page (Gallery) that I cannot sort out.
For the life of me I don’t know why the sidebar looks the way it does either. That “Side Blog” widget you see doesn’t even exist anymore. The plugin is deleted. Its like it is a cached page that just won’t go away, and yes, I have tried disabling WP Super Cache, didn’t fix the problem either.

Yeah, it’s probably not a good idea to have tags and categories named the same. If you do, you may want to review the difference and purpose of tags vs categories.

Here’s my suggestion, disable any plugins you have that enable caching. Also, go to your Permalinks page, and click save (this will help flush the settings after renaming categories and tags).

Also, double check that the year and date is correct in Settings > General.

Thank you harbormark ??

I tried all your suggestions but the duplicate pages with the outdated sidebar continues to show up.

I’ll leave my cache plugin off for a while and see if anything changes eventually