kingharvest9900

I never did solve the problem as to where ‘Categories’ went (and frustratingly, it shows up sometimes!) but I did find a solution that might be of interest should that happen to anyone else.

It is a plugin called Taxopress. https://taxopress.com/

TaxoPress allows you to create and manage Tags, Categories, and all your WordPress taxonomy terms. TaxoPress can help with all your WordPress content, from adding Tags and Categories to Pages, to managing WooCommerce Product Categories and bbPress Topic Tags.

It allows the user to click on list of suitable categories at the bottom of the editor page and also option to add new categories from a dropdown option on the right side.

Hello. Thanks for the follow-up.

The troubleshooting steps were the first thing I tried and an extensive search online invariably presents the same options.

The problem is resolved occasionally and if not I am adding basic categories via the post screen.

Moving on…

James

Thank you anyway.

Hello. Thank you for your reply.

Here are two screenshots. The first shows what it looks like now. Categories and tags are missing:

https://snipboard.io/w6p2gF.jpg

And this is what is used to look like,, although it took some time to find one that still showed the two fields:

https://snipboard.io/Do9qOp.jpg

I don’t know if this is a problem with the theme or I have accidenlty moved the fields somewhere and cannot invoke them again.

Thanks again,
James

Hello. I had already updated WP and I thought that might have been the issue, but I don’t think it was.

After checking plugs in etc I still could not find the issue.

I double checked the site this morning and the main issue (the error message) was gone and the other two issues (not being able to do a back up) was also fixed.

So I don’t what was causing the problems.

I restored all the plugins and did a backup and everything seems to be working as usual.

Hello.

This appears to be a common problem.

I recently updated to WordPress 5.9.3.

Thank you very much. I am new to org having only used com before.

I recently updated two Gutenberg plugins and thought it might be them, but after reading your reply I remembered I updated the theme at the same time.

Thanks again,
James