# Discourse Doc Categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** official, doc-categories\
**Created:** [August 26, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376 "2024-08-26T23:00:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376/145 "2025-12-03T17:49:58Z")

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> [@sren-1](#):
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> The plugin doesn’t work since our recent update from `3.6.0.beta1`.

Did you run the `rake` task as described here?

> [@Discourse Doc Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376/130):
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> loudspeaker Updates for self-hosters For self-hosters using this plugin, our most recent update would require a manual rebuild of the index. This would involve running this rake task: bundle exec rake doc\_categories:build\_sidebar # if running the task above fails due to NoDatabaseError, # run with the following for typical self-hosted setups sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake doc\_categories:build\_sidebar If you are not able to run this rake task, you may go to each documentation categor…

There is an alternative (remove Index Topic in Category Settings, click save, and re-add) if you can’t do the Rake task.

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