Can’t add categories to post

[TomJaycocks]

I have updated to WordPress 6.0 and any user except for the main administrator level can’t add a category to a post. On save, it removes it and gives it a category of “Uncategorised”.

Inside the server logs, it is erroring the admin-ajax.php, within this it mentions the “press-this-add-category” is now deprecated so I was not sure if this had anything to do with it?

[Vladimir]

Hi,

Excuse for delay with response.

If this is still actual, there is a plugin “Press This“. I suppose that ID ‘press-this-add-category’ may be related to the plugin above. If you has such active plugin, try deactivate it and test.

[TomJaycocks]

Thank you for the reply.

I don’t have this plugin installed. But i just assumed that the ID was something to do with the issue.

Would there be anything to do with the Role Editor plugin causing any users except the full admin from changing categories?

[Vladimir]

WordPress itself requires ‘manage_categories’ user capability. URE plugin does not change this.

To isolate a reason try to deactivate all plugins and test. If it will help, activate plugins back one by one with a new test until the problem will raise again.

[TomJaycocks]

Thank you for your assistance.

I downloaded a local version of the site, and found out a plugin called “Restricted Authors.” was causing the issue.

Naturally, it stops certain user roles from using set categories, but I’m assuming with the new WP update that came out recently, something has stopped working.

This issue is now resolved 🙂

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