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1. marlexsystems
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello,

   I recently have upgraded my wordpress Website to a WordPress 2.3, but when I enter, a message say:

   WordPress database error: [Table 'wordpress.wp_categories' doesn't exist]
   SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC

   If anyone can help me, I appreciated... BTW my Website is www.marlexsystems.org

2. Stevie212
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   It's a plugin doing it, disable all plugins one by one and see if it fixes the problem, WP 2.3 does not use the "wp_categories" database table anymore, so any plugins utilizing it will throw up an error. The plugin author should update the plugin.

3. Stevie212
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Also any plugins using;

   wp_categories
   wp_post2cat
   wp_link2cat

   database tables need to know these tables are obsolete. Disable any plugin that uses these database tables until the plugin author fixes the issue.

4. miguknamja4
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you!

5. jesusbet
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi. I've solved a similar problem by deactivating the GOOGLE SITEMAPS PLUGIN. The version I was running was 2.7.1, but I'm sure there's an update available.

   Regards

6. spencerp
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You need to upgrade your Google Sitemaps plugin to the latest version.

7. mdg33
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yeh, I had the same problem only it was the Add Meta Tags plug in. Once deactivated it was fine.

   There's bound to be a few more

8. nataprawira
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well..

   I know this one is not good solution. But, what i tried was creating new tables "wp_categories", and also created 1 db field called "cat_name".

   Refresh the site and then its back to normal again.

   Reason i was doing this was, because when the error occured, i even could not accessing my wp-admin site.

   So, by creating the temporary tables and field on the database, i could logged in and disable the plugin that affecting the site.

   Thanks,
   Denie

9. sonria
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   so what IS the new name for wp_categories? Since the default category widget isn't XHTML compliant (boooooooooooo) I'm using a plugin.

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