Products not showing on Product Category archive pages – disappearing

### Environment ###

Home URL:                https://springfieldmusicstore.com
Site URL:                https://springfieldmusicstore.com
WC Version:              2.1.5
WC Database Version:     2.1.5
WP Version:              3.9.1
WP Multisite Enabled:    No
Web Server Info:         Apache
PHP Version:             5.3.24
MySQL Version:           5.5.37-35.0-log
WP Memory Limit:         40 MB - We recommend setting memory to at least 64MB. See: Increasing memory allocated to PHP
WP Debug Mode:           No
WP Language:             Default
WP Max Upload Size:      32 MB
PHP Post Max Size:       33 MB
PHP Time Limit:          30
PHP Max Input Vars:      1000
SUHOSIN Installed:       No
WC Logging:              Log directory is writable.
Default Timezone:        Default timezone is UTC
fsockopen/cURL:          Your server has fsockopen and cURL enabled.
SOAP Client:             Your server has the SOAP Client class enabled.
WP Remote Post:          wp_remote_post() was successful - PayPal IPN is working.

### Locale ###

decimal_point:           .
thousands_sep:
mon_decimal_point:
mon_thousands_sep:       

### Plugins ###

Installed Plugins:       Contact Form 7 Newsletter by Katz Web Services
                         Inc. version 2.0.5
                         Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi version 3.8
                         Custom Facebook Feed by Smash Balloon version 1.9.4
                         Really Simple CAPTCHA by Takayuki Miyoshi version 1.8
                         Responsive Menu by Peter Featherstone version 1.9
                         Springfield Music Custom by Carmen Borrelli version 1
                         WCK - Custom Fields and Custom Post Types Creator by Reflection Media
                         Madalin Ungureanu
                         sareiodata version 1.1.0
                         WooCommerce by WooThemes version 2.1.5
                         WordPress SEO by Joost de Valk version 1.5.3.3

### Settings ###

Force SSL:               No

### WC Pages ###

Shop Base:               Page not set
Cart:                    #62 - /cart/
Checkout:                #63 - /checkout/
My Account:              #64 - /my-account/

### WC Taxonomies ###

Order Statuses:          cancelled (cancelled)
                         completed (completed)
                         failed (failed)
                         on-hold (on-hold)
                         pending (pending)
                         processing (processing)
                         refunded (refunded)

Product Types:           external (external)
                         grouped (grouped)
                         simple (simple)
                         variable (variable)

### Theme ###

Theme Name:              Springfield Music
Theme Version:           1.3
Author URL:              https://springfieldmusicstore.com/

### Templates ###

Template Overrides (WooCommerce):archive-product.php
                         single-product.php

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I downgraded back to WC 2.1.5 (the one that I had started w/) because I started noticing the problems when I upgraded to 2.1.12.

With 2.1.12 products disappeared from Category archive pages at a certain time. Could not tie it to any certain activity.

Thought things were fine w/ 2.1.5 but checked after a couple days and no products were showing on Product Category archive pages. Now only a few products show on Category pages (248 published products show in admin area).

Tried changing permalink settings, doesn’t make a difference.

I am using cron jobs to automatically import and track products from eBay. Using:

wp_insert_post(), update_post_meta(), set_post_thumbnail(), wp_update_post()

Am setting update_post_meta($new_prod_id, ‘_visibility’, ‘visible’); already and checked visibility after started having problems so I don’t think it’s that.

Need serious help with this.

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