Incorrect posts and pages trash count

What did you do before this issue happened? Update WP? Update Plugins/themes? Something else?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by t-p.

I have just become the webmaster of this site about a week ago. I didn’t check the trash(s)’ count but I just noticed them this morning after I updated Creativ Blog Theme, installed 4 essential WPML plug-ins and created a child theme for Creativ Blog Theme myself.

I am not sure if one of the things I did caused this issue or not but I hope not.

I thought the amount of trash count is stored in the database somewhere so I expected to find out which database table stores this info so I can get into phpmyadmin and edit it but I could be wrong.

This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt:
– deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere). If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).
– If that does not help, try switching to the unedited default Theme (Twenty Nineteen, etc.) for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

It works. Thanks. I don’t know which plug-in caused it because I reactivated the plug-ins one by one and that error did not come back. Now the site’s back-end is running smoothly.

Glad its sorted ??