Title: Post Count Refresh
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Post Count Refresh

 *  [hexified](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hexified/)
 * (@hexified)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-refresh/)
 * I just finished deleting over 200 posts from the wp_posts table but when I go
   back into my blog the old numbers next to the category names remain the same.
 * How do I get these numbers to refresh to reflect the REAL number of posts left
   after deleting a bunch from the database?

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 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-refresh/#post-353114)
 * This is a very loos shot ( I should be ashamed ).
    Would a sloution be t delete
   your cache ?
 *  [YellowSwordfish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yellowswordfish/)
 * (@yellowswordfish)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-refresh/#post-353130)
 * Assuming you mean you went into the database to perform your deletes then my 
   guess is that you also need to delete the associated rows from the post2cat table
   that stores the relationship between a post and it’s category(s).
    I don’t believe
   MySQL has great referential integrity otherwise you wouldn’t have been able to
   delete the posts. The category post count is almost certainly derived from Post2Cat.
 *  Thread Starter [hexified](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hexified/)
 * (@hexified)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-refresh/#post-353345)
 * After much effort, the only way I managed to fix the problem was by deleting 
   the categories and then re-creating them.

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 * Last reply from: [hexified](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hexified/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-refresh/#post-353345)
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