Tag post counts stay at zero after conversion
After converting categories to tags, the post count shows zero even though the posts are listed on the tag page, and the count stays wrong.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 6 June 2023 · last reported 19 September 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who convert categories into tags find that the count column in the admin shows zero for the new tag, even though the tag archive page lists every post.
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