Title: Ghost post?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Ghost post?

 *  [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/)
 * I don’t know what to call it, but on my post page it says I have 462 posts total
   and my published posts are 235. Where are the 233 posts that aren’t published?

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 *  [kapshaltist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapshaltist/)
 * (@kapshaltist)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061729)
 * must be private ones. check the posts thoroughly and you may get post assigned
   to private.
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061733)
 * How does it say 462 posts? Are you looking at the ID’s?
 *  Thread Starter [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061810)
 * I got rid of my 1 private post. As for the ID’s, I’m looking at the total posts
   in my blog displayed at the top, under the ‘add new’ button
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061815)
 * Drafts, posts in the trash, perhaps you exclude a category somewhere?
 *  Thread Starter [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061821)
 * Wouldn’t ‘Drafts’ and ‘trash’ be included in the same line as ‘published’ and‘
   All’?
 *  Thread Starter [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061822)
 * I only publish to one category.
 *  Thread Starter [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061830)
 * I added a post, now it’s 465 All and 236 Published.
 *  Thread Starter [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2061965)
 * still accumulating after upgrading to version 3.1.3
 *  Thread Starter [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2062058)
 * in WordPress 3.3, it still is happening. It says i have a total of 752 posts,
   which 273 are published and are real. I thought if it was a cosmetic mistake 
   then by v3.3, it should be fixed. It is not, so now I am thinking it might have
   been caused when I tried manually installing it and got impatient while waiting
   for a core update and terminated the setup before it was done, corrupting setup
   files.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2062059)
 * Doing a manual upgrade should have fixed that.
 * Have you run a repair on your database?
 *  Thread Starter [brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/)
 * (@brainjured)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2062060)
 * I just did run a repair on my DB and nothing happened. I thought a manual upgrade
   might do it too way back a few months ago.
 *  [farmer paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtowel/)
 * (@vtowel)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2062062)
 * Same thing has been happening on our network site for the last couple weeks. 
   Oodles of draft posts (with missing fields) just accumulate on their own. Our
   editor keeps having to delete them every day because they interfere with the 
   post list (they always show up at the top and shift all legit posts down). Have
   no idea where these ghost posts are coming from.
 *  [farmer paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtowel/)
 * (@vtowel)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghost-post/#post-2062063)
 * [@brainjured](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainjured/): I’m getting closer
   to finding the source of my own ghost posts. I was wondering, do you have any
   particular WordPress plugins enabled, by chance?

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