Title: Error: 503 when adding category to menu
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error: 503 when adding category to menu

 *  [Skymone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skymone/)
 * (@skymone)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-503-when-adding-category-to-menu/)
 * Hi,
    I’m doing some changes to my webpage, among which is using custom post type
   to make a “Meet the team” page. I got it all working, now I want to add it to
   the menu – BUT whenever I add any of the categories to my custom post, I get 
   the following error:
 * “Error 503 Service Unavailable
 * Service Unavailable
 * Guru Meditation:
 * XID: 402628900
 * Varnish cache server”
 * It’s only when adding those categories I get the error. I googled, and only found
   a similar problem in a thread from 2006, which didn’t have a solution.
    Anyone
   know how to fix this?
 * Webpage: [http://romowind.com/](http://romowind.com/)
 * Edit: Just tested, and seems to be a general problem with adding items to my 
   menu. Not getting the error on other parts, though (I can add posts and pages
   etc)

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-503-when-adding-category-to-menu/#post-2808007)
 * Well, I don’t have a solution but I’d bet it has to do with Varnish. Can you 
   turn that off and try to add a menu?
 *  Thread Starter [Skymone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skymone/)
 * (@skymone)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-503-when-adding-category-to-menu/#post-2808031)
 * Uhm, to be honest, I’ve never heard about it before. My webpage is hosted by 
   one.com, would I ask them to turn it off or how would I do it?
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-503-when-adding-category-to-menu/#post-2808043)
 * The last line of that error is what makes me suspicious: “Varnish cache server”.
   I don’t know if you can turn it off. You’d need to look around in your site’s
   configuration menus– not wp-admin, the ones provided by your host. It is just
   an experiment at this point. It may not help.

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 * Last reply from: [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-503-when-adding-category-to-menu/#post-2808043)
 * Status: not resolved

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