Title: Categories Suddenly Missing from Published Posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Categories Suddenly Missing from Published Posts

 *  [daphnedelay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daphnedelay/)
 * (@daphnedelay)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/)
 * I’ve searched the forum and can’t find anyone else with my problem, but my categories
   are suddenly not viewable on my published posts anymore. They are all intact 
   on the backend (set-up, search, etc.) but not on the individual posts anymore.
 * Any help would be most appreciated! I’m just not sure where to look anymore and
   I’ve already deleted new plugins that may have caused the problem.
 * Thanks in advance!
 * Site: [http://www.mirrorministries.org](http://www.mirrorministries.org)

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 *  [lorbach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorbach/)
 * (@lorbach)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/#post-4588134)
 * Hello daphnedelay. Let’s figure this out!
 * So you’ve deleted any new and potentially troublesome plugins. That’s a good 
   start. Which theme are you using?
 *  [Undergod11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/undergod11/)
 * (@undergod11)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/#post-4588140)
 * Do you have teamviewer? I might be able to connect and take a look at the problem
   from the back end but there are so many possible things to consider why it might
   not be showing categories. But if it recently stopped showing after a plugin 
   installation then that is probably the issue.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/#post-4588146)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder and wp-
   config.php & root .htaccess files – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make
   sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new
   ones.
 *  Thread Starter [daphnedelay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daphnedelay/)
 * (@daphnedelay)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/#post-4588204)
 * The current theme is Weaver II, because WPCreativix (which I loved) stopped responding
   after the new WP upgrade. But even the Twenty-Four isn’t showing categories either
   which makes me think it’s not a theme problem.
 * When you say deactivate all plugins, do you mean even the ones I had prior to
   this problem? I didn’t think of doing that.
 * I’ll check into resetting the plugins folder too.
 * Sorry, I don’t have team viewer, that would be awesome if you could look in there
   for me.
 * I’m really grateful for the feedback! Let me run through all your suggestions
   and I’ll answer back!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/#post-4588207)
 * > When you say deactivate all plugins, do you mean even the ones I had prior 
   > to this problem?
 * Yep. Absolutely everything. The idea is to try and get that site back to (what
   is called) a vanilla install so that we can exclude as many variables as possible.
 *  [Undergod11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/undergod11/)
 * (@undergod11)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/#post-4588216)
 * Just check each plugin one by one. Deactivating and reactivating. Easiest non-
   programming method.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Undergod11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/undergod11/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-suddenly-missing-from-published-posts/#post-4588216)
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