I used to be able to see the subcategories when publishing a post to Discourse, now I can only see top level categories in the dropdown. I do have the option checked for displaying subcategories in the WP plugin so there seems to be a regression here.

Hey David, I just tested this out and it’s working for me. Here’s what I did with my test setup (wp-discourse.pavilion.tech is connected to demo.pavilion.tech). Created a new sub-category: Eclipses - Pavilion's Demo Community Turned on “Display Subcategories” in WP Discourse Publishing settings. Forced a category update in WP Discourse by checking “Force Category Update”. The eclipse sub-category appeared in the category list in WP Discourse. Publishing to the eclipse category worked as expected. How was your experience of the eclipse? – WP Discourse Test Site How was your experience of the eclipse? - Eclipses - Pavilion's Demo Community Could you walk me through some similar steps reproducing the issue?

I wonder if this is related to the experimental ‘category scaling’ mode? Maybe worth trying? (@davidkingham do you have that enabled?)

Yes, I’ve reproduced the issue as follows: Set the Discourse site setting “lazy load categories groups” to “admins”. Perform steps 1 to 3 (above). Subcategories do not appear in WP Discourse. @davidkingham could confirm whether you’re using the “lazy load categories groups” site setting?

Thanks guys, yes I had it set to admins, disabling it does not bring the subcategories back.

You may need to also invalidate your WP Discourse and / or Discourse caches. Update the details of a category in Discourse. Select “Force Category Update” in the WP Discourse Publishing settings and “Save Options”.

That did the trick, thank you Angus!

Subcategories suddenly missing

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angus (Angus McLeod) April 16, 2024, 2:43pm 7

You may need to also invalidate your WP Discourse and / or Discourse caches.

Update the details of a category in Discourse.
Select “Force Category Update” in the WP Discourse Publishing settings and “Save Options”.

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