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  • Marcel Westerhoff
    (Private)  December 3, 2018 at 11:03 pm #195180

    Hello,

    Please have a look at my website and check out the first drop-down in the filter bar “All Categories”. The first item a:1:(i:0;s:13:”Casual Dining”;) looks very weird and doesn’t actually exist. It looks like a bug. Could you please help?

    Thank you in advance. Best regards, Marcel

    Marcel Westerhoff
    (Private)  December 3, 2018 at 11:03 pm #195181
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    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  December 4, 2018 at 9:55 am #195202

    That looks like the post meta data for a post (possibly one that has been deleted) has been corrupted in your database. A WordPress database ‘cleanup’ tool might remove it. Essentially, there are two tables in the database that are connected to this.

    The posts table and the post meta table.

    Each entry in the post meta table has a post ID to link it to. What I think must have have happened is that there will be an entry in the Post Meta table where the Post ID stored no longer exists in the Posts table. Whilst I have not used a cleanup plugin for some time, I think there will be a plugin that looks for those ‘lost’ records and deletes them.

    OR, the actual data in a valid post meta table entry has become corrupt. I do not know which it is. It would not be hard to find using a plugin like ARI Adminer (which is how I now do it when I have a database issue).

    Marcel Westerhoff
    (Private)  December 4, 2018 at 12:12 pm #195219

    Hi Trevor, your solution didn’t help but I did manage to fix it. I didn’t mention the drop down included ACF data. So I checked ‘Is ACF Field?’ in the search form UI settings. That fixed it. Thanks for your quick reply though.

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