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I think I resolved this by removing all of the content from that page and replacing it with new content. Its still odd though. And I don’t know what caused the duplicate content. But I do believe I fixed it, even though it was not in the most elegant manner.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will do that. And thanks for including the link. That is so helpful.

thank you so much Thomas. That was the sort of reassurance that I needed. I am seeing rotation now and my guess is we just needed to wait for awhile for everything to work. Regardless, I appreciate your time. And should this work well for us then we will upgrade.

I just wish I knew whether I have it set up correctly.

So yes. We use W3 Total Cache.

So you cannot rotate ads without using the pro version if you have caching (and who doesn’t)? Is that correct? We were hoping to find out if and how this worked before ponying up.

That worked. Thanks for your concise reply.

That doesn’t work. But what did work was to go to Appearance/Customize Theme/Blog/ and change to full post vs excerpt there. I guess I”m still not familiar with the customizer. Thanks for your reply

Additionally the error log shows Premature end of script errors:

[Sun Oct 02 00:31:22 2016] [error] [client 104.168.156.64] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.shopsos.com/carmen-busquets-fashion-e-commerces-fairy-godmother/
[Sun Oct 02 00:31:32 2016] [error] [client 104.168.156.64] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.shopsos.com/carmen-busquets-fashion-e-commerces-fairy-godmother/
[Sun Oct 02 00:35:18 2016] [error] [client 96.47.231.82] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.shopsos.com/15-iconic-moments-in-underwear-history/
[Sun Oct 02 00:35:28 2016] [error] [client 96.47.231.82] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.shopsos.com/15-iconic-moments-in-underwear-history/
[Sun Oct 02 00:35:30 2016] [error] [client 96.47.231.82] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.shopsos.com/15-iconic-moments-in-underwear-history/
[Sun Oct 02 00:42:55 2016] [error] [client 74.125.76.34] Premature end of script headers: index.php
[Sun Oct 02 00:43:00 2016] [error] [client 131.161.9.209] Premature end of script headers: index.php
[Sun Oct 02 00:47:27 2016] [error] [client 192.99.186.105] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.shopsos.com/the-tuck-room-will-serve-a-little-history-with-your-highball/
[Sun Oct 02 00:47:28 2016] [error] [client 192.99.186.105] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.shopsos.com/the-tuck-room-will-serve-a-little-history-with-your-highball/

OK, I wanted to report back on where I ended up.

By opening multiple tabs each tab having my admin panel with the categories window open, I was able in each window to delete 250 categories in each window. This added up to deleting 2000 at a session. At first I needed to wait 20 minutes for the process to take place. Over time, the deleting process was faster.

I’ve now deleted the 41000 categories that needed eliminating.

This freed up the memory that was needed to display posts in the editing window. I can now edit and see posts in my admin.

Thanks again for all who helped me through this. It was a strange, long process. But its done now.

I asked support at my hosting provider to set the time limits to 10x higher

they set them thus:
‘
mysql.connect_timeout = 600
max_input_time = 600
default_socket_timeout = 600
max_execution_time = 600
‘
The result of this action is that I can now delete 240 categories at once. There is still a time out after 2 minutes; but after 15 minutes those 240 categories have been deleted. Still hoping to find a more efficient solution.

And thanks for the input. Its the only way I’ve been able to really make any progress. Getting input and feedback from people in these forums.

Thanks for the encouragement. It all started with a memory issue. Now I can see that the most likely a big part of the memory issue was this ridiculous number of categories that need to be read every time anything to do with a post is activated.

And I am open to all suggestions as to how to help make what I am doing less cumbersome!

Ok. It appears that with a higher number loaded that it will only delete 106 categories at a time, which is better than where I started.

I’ve also asked my hosting provider to increase the maximum time setting.

So not there yet, but slowly making progress

Troubleshooting Worpress in the forum, I must say is an awareness building activity!

I do believe that even though the delete categories action times out, that the process continues regardless. I set the number of categories to 100 and the process timed out. But on a refresh of the screen, it does appear, that slowly the number of categories is going down. So this is hopeful. The next step is that I will increase the number to 999 and see where that takes me. I’ll report back regarding failure or success. Thanks.