# Category topic count incorrectly displaying number of posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 18, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485 "2024-04-18T16:02:09Z")
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### Author:  [@anon82911141](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82911141)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/1 "2024-04-18T16:02:09Z")
Hi everyone,
I’m having a problem where on the main page of my Discourse instance, the categories are displayed with the number of topics. However, after permanently deleting a post, the number still does not go down - is there a way to resolve this? The number of posts is 5 even though there are 3 topics open and 2 have been permanently deleted.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/2 "2024-04-18T16:19:36Z")
Are you referring to this?
> [@Number on the side of categories showing number of topics made in the past week isn't correct](https://meta.discourse.org/t/number-on-the-side-of-categories-showing-number-of-topics-made-in-the-past-week-isnt-correct/295253):
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> Hello! I noticed an odd thing on a forum I am a TL3 recently. In a private category I can see, the number shows that 13 topics were created in the past week. Do note I deleted the category name/info so I don’t leak anything I shouldn’t as it’s a private category. The names are the only thing I changed in the Chrome inspect tool. When I opened this category, however, there are only 2 topics created in the last month. “Pinned Topic” and “Topic #3” were not created in the last month, b…
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### Author:  [@anon82911141](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82911141)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/3 "2024-04-18T16:57:04Z")
Hi ondrej,
No - I’m referring to normal lifetime category topic posts, not weekly posts.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/4 "2024-04-18T17:08:34Z")
I think there’s a daily background job that would adjust those. How long has it been?
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### Author:  [@anon82911141](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82911141)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/5 "2024-04-18T17:11:47Z")
Hi JammyDodger,
It’s been 3 hours - is there a way to manually run this background job?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/6 "2024-04-18T17:56:43Z")
If you have access to your `/sidekiq/scheduler` page, you can manually trigger `jobs::EnsureDbConsistency`. Hopefully that kicks it back into line. 🤞
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### Author:  [@anon82911141](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82911141)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/7 "2024-04-18T18:11:55Z")
Thanks - that worked!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-topic-count-incorrectly-displaying-number-of-posts/304485/8 "2024-05-18T18:12:45Z")
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