Title: Problem with Product Attribute
Last modified: December 8, 2016

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# Problem with Product Attribute

 *  [Daniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silvercell/)
 * (@silvercell)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-product-attribute/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m new to this, but really need help with this problem.
 * In woocommerce–>products–>attributes we have a attribute called categories which
   seems to make the problem. If we change anything on the site and safe, all the
   categories are lost in the frontview. Just by exident I changed this attributes
   name and changed it back afterwards and now everything works fine again. I really
   don’t know on how to fix this?! Any ideas?
    If you need more information, please
   say so, not sure whats important to know here 😉
 * best regards

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 *  [anphira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anphira/)
 * (@anphira)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-product-attribute/#post-8531017)
 * [@silvercell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silvercell/) you should not
   have an attribute (or really anything) named “categories”. If you want to group
   things into categories, please use the Categories that are available under Products.“
   Categories” is something used by everything in WordPress.
 * Part of your problem may also be how old your WordPress version is, you listed
   3.9.3 which is a few years old. They may have changed how the “categories” is
   filtered in more recent versions — but in older versions I definitely see this
   as an issue.
 *  Thread Starter [Daniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silvercell/)
 * (@silvercell)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-product-attribute/#post-8531235)
 * thank you so much, I thought that this might be a problem, will backup everything
   and try it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Daniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silvercell/)
 * (@silvercell)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-product-attribute/#post-8531399)
 * well, didn’t worked really good.
    The Update killed the site completely (good
   thing i made a backup!)
 * And changing the Attributes Name and or Permalink made everything except the 
   startpage unavailable :/
 * any other ideas on what to try?
 * best regards

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