Tag count incorrect

  • Resolved morbidromantic

    (@morbidromantic)


    15 years, 3 months ago

    I have been having this problem since 2.6.

    When I look at my Admin panel it says:
    9 Tags

    However, I don’t have any tags. It should read 0 Tags because I have never created or used tags in my blog. When I click the number 9 and go to the tag page, it doesn’t list a single tag. Obviously because there are no tags to list. 😛

    How do I get this number to ‘recount’ so that it will go to 0?

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    What happens if you add a tag? Does the number increase to 10 or change to 1.

    Then what happens if you delete the tag?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Empty tags show up as tags there too, but don’t show on the tags page itself. Kind of annoying, I think.

    Basically, the number shown there reflects how many tags are in your database, even if you have not got them on a post at present. Removing a tag from a post doesn’t delete the tag itself.

    This is probably a bug, empty tags really should show up on the tag editing screen.

    Thread Starter morbidromantic

    (@morbidromantic)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for the replies!

    Michael, I just added a tag and the count went up to 10:
    http://morbid-romantic.net/images/admin_1.jpg <– Main Admin page
    http://morbid-romantic.net/images/admin_2.jpg <– Tag page

    If what is happening is what Otto42 says, how can I clear out these empty tags? I tried going to delete in the bulk actions option to see what that would do, but it didn’t clear out the strange 9 tags.

    Is there anywhere in the database I can go to reset this number?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Find the entries in the terms table that have “post_tag” as their type. Remove them.

    Thread Starter morbidromantic

    (@morbidromantic)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you so, so much, Otto42. It’s nice to see that number at 0.

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