Fix Category Count

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 61% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 952 days.

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1. ★★★★★ Alan

   6mo ago

   After deleting thousands of spam posts, including thousands of orphan categories, I used the latest version of Fix Categories Count to reset the number of categories to 0. It worked flawlessly and very fast.

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2. ★★★★★ davemc50

   2.1y ago

   WordPress 6.x , no longer works, “There has been a critical error on this website”

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3. ★★★★★ Gustav

   8.1y ago

   Worked perfect!

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4. ★★★★★ deadhippo

   8.7y ago

   I have a site with about 30,000 posts and the custom taxonomy count was off. After running this plugin a few times the taxonomy count actually got worse. I had to run it a few times because it timed out. Not worry, though. I used the following SQL to fix the problem and it ran very quickly. 9300 rows affected. (Query took 2.9573 seconds.) UPDATE wp_term_taxonomy SET count = ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_term_relationships rel LEFT JOIN wp_posts po ON (po.ID = rel.object_id) WHERE rel.term_taxonomy_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id AND wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy NOT IN ('link_category') AND po.post_status IN ('publish', 'future') ) Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18669256/how-to-update-wordpress-taxonomiescategories-tags-count-field-after-bulk-impo

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5. ★★★★★ trongnghia203

   9.0y ago

   Many thanks, brother. Although I don’t know how comes the wrong number of posts in category… But your plugin is saving my wordpress life… This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by trongnghia203.

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6. ★★★★★ alburse

   9.4y ago

   The number of posts associated with a category may get mixed up (mine is due to the daily import and deletion of the posts with wp all import plugin) and this plugin can correct this error to the actual number of posts. It also works with custom post types. My suggestion would be the addition of wp cron functionality so it can fix the category counts automatically once in a while to ensure all the categories are up to date. This topic was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by alburse. This topic was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by alburse.

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7. ★★★★★ Marinos

   10.0y ago

   Thanks !!!!!

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8. ★★★★★ Mike V. Gorbunov

   10.6y ago

   a must have for fixing the import bugs

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-07 90+ → 100+ up after 179 days in tier
2. 2025-11-09 100+ → 90+ down after 38 days in tier
3. 2025-10-02 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-10-01 100+ → 90+ down after 5 days in tier
5. 2025-09-26 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-09-25 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-09-24 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-09-23 100+ → 90+ down after 89 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• C Count Posts in a Category, Tag, or Custom Taxonomy 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• WP-DBManager 60K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
• Pages with category and tag 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• Search & Filter 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• Category Posts Block 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A

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Fix Category Count: 100+ active installs, 4.6★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/fix-category-count