Suddenly lots of categories missing in sidebar Gutenberg post editor

I found a topic that explains a similar issue but not sure what he did to actually resolve it. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/in-gutenberg-editor-categories-not-showing/

Any help would be appreciated.

Also tried the official WordPress Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. Even with all plugins and themes disabled, the issue persists in the troubleshoot test area.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Chris.

In that other post you linked, they had a .htaccess directive that was messing up the related API request for category terms. Certainly something to check for, but it’s unlikely to be your issue.

The Gutenberg category meta box only displays your most used categories when you have a lot of them. To access the others you need to use the provided search box. The terms initially listed are intentionally limited because querying for a large number of terms can be rather time consuming.

_{The Gutenberg category meta box only displays your most used categories when you have a lot of them. To access the others you need to use the provided search box. The terms initially listed are intentionally limited because querying for a large number of terms can be rather time consuming.}

thank you for your reply but I have been using this for many years and yes usually I search fore the correct category in the search bar on the right (because that is faster then manually scrolling through 200 categories) and select it. However, also using the search bar doesn’t work anymore. The missing categories do not show up there.

The only way to add a blog post in the correct category at this point is by going out of the post and go to the overview page, select quick edit and manually scroll and find the correct categories there. There I can still find them manually.

It’s really strange, why did they disappear in the Gutenberg editor sidebar and why only 69 of almost 200 are showing up now? I am totally lost…

Problem still persists.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Chris.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Chris.

OK, if the search feature isn’t returning the desired terms, that’s a different query than the one for populating the initial list. It’s possible your theme or one of your plugins is inadvertently impacting the query. As a test, switch to one of the default Twenty* themes and deactivate all plugins.

If my suspicion is correct, you will now be able to search for desired terms. Determine which module was the problem by restoring your theme and plugins, one at a time, testing after each. When the problem returns, the last activated module was the cause.

Hey,

Thanks for the tips. I tried that. Still the same issue. Even when using the ?WordPress Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin, disabling everything in a safe environment with everything disabled with a standard theme, the problem still occurs…

My apologies, that search box does not operate the way I expected. It only searches within the existing list. Not useful for terms that didn’t make the list ??

We can alter the max number of terms shown in the list with the following code:

add_filter('rest_category_query',  'bcw_more_cats', 10, 2 );
function bcw_more_cats( $args, $request ) {
	$args['number'] = 300;
	return $args;
}

You can try out this code by adding it to the end of your theme’s functions.php file. But if your theme is subject to periodic updates it will disappear during the next update. If you have any active plugins that are not subject to updates you could place it there instead. For reliable persistence this code could be made into its own stand alone plugin.

Hey,

Thanks, this actually worked. I added the code to a child theme so it doesn’t get overwritten when I get a theme update.

Thank you so much!!!