Kategorieanforderungsfehler

[cogdog (Alan Levine)]

My WordPress site with latest version of WP Discourse is returning on every post under the discourse tab:

There was an error returning the category list from Discourse.

The logs are full of errors

[2025-09-22 00:10:14] comment.ERROR: sync_comments.get_discourse_category {"message":"The categories key was not found in the response from Discourse."} 

Just for the heck of it, I created a new API key.

I have checked all settings 3 times

I have a second WordPress site where it is able to get categories from the same discourse server with no problem.

What am I missing?

[Lilly (Lillian Louis)]

maybe see this post (and topic)

Issues with category selection in WP-Discourse

The “There was an error returning the category list from Discourse” error message in your screenshot indicates that there is a problem with the plugin’s configuration. If you go to the WP Discourse Connection settings tab, are you seeing a notice saying that “You are connected to Discourse”? For the API Key field on that page, have you entered an All Users API Key? If not, could you try changing the API Key to an All Users API Key? On Discourse the key should be generated like this: [image] F…