WordPress immediately removing tags
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(I posted about this problem about half a year ago and received some advice, which I tried but didn’t get a resolution. I just kind of let it go because if one persisted, you could force the issue through, but that isn’t happening anymore, and the problem has gotten worse).
The story is that when I am creating a post, and manually entering in tags into the Tags section on the right, something will immediately wipe out certain tags, seemingly at random. These words or phrases used for these tags aren’t present in the text/body of the post, nor are they duplicates of existing Categories we have set up.
As noted at the start, before we could just keep typing the tag until it stayed, but it appears multiple updates since then have only exacerbated the problem so that one can no longer keep typing it in until it stays.
To compound the issue, the site is now using FS Poster to push posts out to social media, and we have enabled the setting where FS Poster will convert our tags into hashtags. So, obviously, we WANT them to stay there.
I have attempted rolling back the site to a WP-originated theme, and disabled all of the plugins, but the issue still persists.
Please see the following unlisted video for a sample of it in action. In the video, you can see me type in certain tags and then, after a few seconds, they just disappear.
Now, when in Posts / All Posts, this doesn’t occur if we select Quick Edit and then enter the tags there. So one could, in theory, wait to create the tags when they are done with the post itself, but this defeats the point of having the ability to create tags when drafting the post in the first place.
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Thanks for quick response!
As to your first question, I already address that in the post:
“I have attempted rolling back the site to a WP-originated theme, and disabled all of the plugins, but the issue still persists.”
In regards to Health Check, that was also advised back when this was originally brought up, however it proved to be a non-starter, and after attempting so again this time, I receive the same result (so much so that I’ll copy/paste what I wrote last time):
I have attempted to do that, but it isn’t doing me much good. After entering Troubleshooting mode I switched over the the 2020 WP theme and then began testing. However, whenever I try to use the Health Check plugin’s functionality to enable any of my plugins, each and every one fails with a message
When enabling the plugin, [insert plugin name here], a site failure occurred. Because of this the change was automatically reverted.
I then attempted to switch over to the 2021 theme while in Troubleshooting mode, and received the similar message
When switching the active theme to twentytwentyone, a site failure occurred. Because of this we reverted the theme to the one you used previously.
After I posted that in the original thread, there were no further comments or advice.
One more bit of clarification: even with Health Check enabled, using 2021 theme (I deleted 2020), before I can even try out enabling plugins the issue still persists. So even acting like a fresh install some tags, but not all, get wiped out seconds after I type them in.
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