Categories and posts vanish after bulk conversion
Converting categories to tags makes categories and their posts vanish, and the site owner cannot find or restore them afterward.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 8 August 2010 · last reported 29 November 2023
What's going wrong
Site owners who used this tool to turn categories into tags report that categories disappeared from the site, that posts seemed to vanish, and that converting back did not restore them.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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