Error: wp_categories does not exist!

  • Hello,

    I recently have upgraded my wordpress Website to a WordPress 2.3, but when I enter, a message say:

    WordPress database error: [Table 'wordpress.wp_categories' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC

    If anyone can help me, I appreciated… BTW my Website is https://www.marlexsystems.org

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  • It’s a plugin doing it, disable all plugins one by one and see if it fixes the problem, WP 2.3 does not use the “wp_categories” database table anymore, so any plugins utilizing it will throw up an error. The plugin author should update the plugin.

    Also any plugins using;

    wp_categories
    wp_post2cat
    wp_link2cat

    database tables need to know these tables are obsolete. Disable any plugin that uses these database tables until the plugin author fixes the issue.

    Thank you!

    Hi. I’ve solved a similar problem by deactivating the GOOGLE SITEMAPS PLUGIN. The version I was running was 2.7.1, but I’m sure there’s an update available.

    Regards

    You need to upgrade your Google Sitemaps plugin to the latest version.

    Yeh, I had the same problem only it was the Add Meta Tags plug in. Once deactivated it was fine.

    There’s bound to be a few more

    nataprawira

    (@nataprawira)

    Well..

    I know this one is not good solution. But, what i tried was creating new tables “wp_categories”, and also created 1 db field called “cat_name”.

    Refresh the site and then its back to normal again.

    Reason i was doing this was, because when the error occured, i even could not accessing my wp-admin site.

    So, by creating the temporary tables and field on the database, i could logged in and disable the plugin that affecting the site.

    Thanks,
    Denie

    sonria

    (@sonria)

    so what IS the new name for wp_categories? Since the default category widget isn’t XHTML compliant (boooooooooooo) I’m using a plugin.

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