Category and Tag problems in 3.9.1

  • Hi all,

    I just recently upgraded (on a local server, not to the live site) to 3.9.1 from a much older version (3.1, maybe?). Everything seemed to be mostly okay, but now I’ve discovered that tagged posts are not displaying properly. For instance, here is the current (and correct) live page: https://thejournalmag.org/archives/tag/38-2-spring-2014. The posts are culled from the 38.2 Spring tag, and then organized according to category: Art Feature, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Reviews. They display in the order the posts were created.

    In 3.9.1, I have some categories that are simply not displaying, and others that are displaying in opposite order. Which category disappears changes from tag to tag, so in some older ones nonfiction and fiction will be there, but reviews and art features disappear. In another reviews shows back up, but fiction and nonfiction are gone. I have gone in and the posts still exist, and have the proper tag. And in some there are particular posts within a category that won’t be there (so poetry shows up, but some of the posts categorized as poetry do not appear).

    Any ideas about what went wrong? Is it definitely with the new version of WordPress, or is it perhaps when I changed urls when I created the local version of the site? Thanks!

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  • How did you create the local site? When you move or copy a site, you must replace the old URLs and paths with the new ones. Some of these are stored in the database in ‘serialized’ form where the string length is stored along with the string. You must use special tools to search and replace the old values with the new ones.

    If you replace an old URL with a new one of a different length, it will break the serialization, causing many different problems.

    If the old site is still available, you can use the steps shown in this article to copy the site: https://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2012/08/22/migrating-a-wordpress-site-step-by-step/

    If the old site is not available, and you still have a copy of the database from that site, you should be able to use this tool to make the changes: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

    Thread Starter lcbarret82

    (@lcbarret82)

    Hi!

    I ran the Velvet Blues plugin to update URLs. I wasn’t sure about the serialized strings as this is a site I inherited, not one I built, and I didn’t know if it had them. (And I am a newbie to all this.) The interconnectit script had been mentioned to me, but when I went to run it, I wasn’t sure which of the databases I should apply it to. All of them? This is just a copy of a live site, so everything’s still available.

    I have not used the Velvet Blues plugin. According to the documentation I read, it should work, but I think it requires you to know the correct URLs and paths. The WP Migrate DB plugin will tell you those values.

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