Error 500 After Upgrade – termmeta table doesn'T exist

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You should create the termmeta table by yourself

`

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_termmeta (
meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
term_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
meta_key varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
meta_value longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

—
— Indexes for dumped tables
—

—
— Indexes for table wp_termmeta
—
ALTER TABLE wp_termmeta
ADD PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),
ADD KEY term_id (term_id),
ADD KEY meta_key (meta_key(191));

—
— AUTO_INCREMENT for dumped tables
—

—
— AUTO_INCREMENT for table wp_termmeta
—
ALTER TABLE wp_termmeta
MODIFY meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;
`

Hi Xie : thank you for your rapid response. My 4.3 -> 4.4 update at Godaddy/Plesk failed (not sure why – some access rights issues on Plesk maybe). I now get WordPress database error Table ‘wesmith104_foun.L5fjV3F9_termmeta’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT term_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM L5fjV3F9_termmeta WHERE term_id IN (1) ORDER BY meta_id ASC made by require(‘G:\PleskVhosts\wesmith104.com\httpdocs\cattlepointfoundation\wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘G:\PleskVhosts\wesmith104.com\httpdocs\cattlepointfoundation\wp-includes\template-loader.php’), include(‘G:\PleskVhosts\wesmith104.com\httpdocs\cattlepointfoundation\wp-content\themes\themes\twentyfourteen\page.php’), get_sidebar, locate_template, load_template, require_once(‘G:\PleskVhosts\wesmith104.com\httpdocs\cattlepointfoundation\wp-content\themes\themes\twentyfourteen\sidebar.php’), dynamic_sidebar, call_user_func_array, WP_Widget->display_callback, WP_Widget_Categories->widget, wp_list_categories, get_categories, get_terms, update_termmeta_cache, update_meta_cache

Please could you help. Godaddy expert level support has no idea how to add the missing “termmeta” table. I have no SQL expertise but could perhaps run a SQL command in phpAdmin

Your post would be much easier to follow for someone like me NOT skilled in mySQL if I could simply paste the whole thing into Notepad; add my own database prefix “wesmith104_foun.L5fjV3F9” and the execute was all I needed to do.

I believe this is going to be a serious issue for Godaddy. And anyone upgrading from WP4.3 -> 4.4

I am having the same issue. Not sure whats going on.

According to the 4.4 Master list:

• Plesk Updates: There is a problem with Plesk’s provided WordPress 4.4 updater. If you use Plesk’s application updates, you’ll have to update via Dashboard -> Updates in your site’s Dashboard or manually.

@thegrid22593,

If the above info didn’t help you, then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic. That way you stand a good chance of getting full attention to your specific issue. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability of an application as a whole.

Odin/Plesk report : https://kb.odin.com/en/127725

WordPress Toolkit problem after check for updates: cannot update to WordPress 4.4
Article ID: 127725, created on Dec 9, 2015, last review on Dec 14, 2015
APPLIES TO:
Plesk 12.5 for Linux
Plesk 12.0 for Linux
Plesk 12.5 for Windows
Plesk 12.0 for Windows
Symptoms
Wordpress installations are shown broken in the WordPress Toolkit.
URL, Version, Plugins, Themes are empty, only the name shows the installation path and the owner are shown.
All Installations in the toolkit are not checkable now because “not connected” and have a yellow warning sign in front with the following:

Not sure if Godaddy need to apply fix to every PLESK server?

In my case I believe the failure of the last step of the WP 4.4 upgrade on Godaddy/Plesk- which caused key tables not to be added to the mySQL database, was due to an ongoing “access rights” issues. This is the reason many staff at Godaddy repeatedly advise switching websites from Plesk/Windows to Linux.

Hopefully the fix now provided by Plesk to Godaddy will solve this once and for all.

My own question is will this be applied automatically to all shared servers. And will godaddy inform me when completed so I can try to upgrade again?

You can add this table again. Get the code from here https://gist.github.com/anonymous/80fb467852c2c71a5168. Place this code in your functions.php file in your theme’s directory and refresh. You can delete the code after it’s added the table.

@gavin310 work for me, great job. thanks

@gavin310: Thx, works like a charm!