# Category request errors **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-request-errors/383607 **Category:** WordPress **Created:** [September 22, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-request-errors/383607 "2025-09-22T23:15:40Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus) #### Post date: [October 15, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-request-errors/383607/8 "2025-10-15T08:09:52Z")
If possible, could you share a link to your wordpress and discourse instances? If that’s not possible, please have a look at the `/site.json` endpoint of your discourse. For example if you go to `meta.discourse.org/site.json` you’ll see some JSON that includes a `categories` list. Essentially that error appears if: 1. Your Discourse instance returns a non-error response; but 2. There’s no `categories` in your site.json for some reason. The most likely cause of this is still that described in the topic @Lilly linked. If you could try walking through the steps in this topic and check whether you still have a valid connection to your Discourse: > [@Connect WP Discourse to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-wp-discourse-to-discourse/223490): > > After you’ve [installed the WP Discourse Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-the-wp-discourse-plugin/223489) you need to connect it to your Discourse. When you’re ready to go, watch this short video, or follow the instructions below. Next Step Once the plugin is connected, head over to the topic describing the feature you want to set up: [Publish posts to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-publishing-posts-to-discourse/223492)[Use Discourse for Wordpress Comments](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-commenting/223493)[Log in to Discourse with Wordpress (DiscourseConnect)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-discourseconnect/223494)Instructions Steps When you’re looking at the Connection tab of the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin settings,… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-request-errors/383607)._