Title: wp_terms’ doesn’t exist
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp_terms’ doesn’t exist

 *  [inkaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inkaman/)
 * (@inkaman)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_terms-doesnt-exist-1/)
 * I tried installing 2.3. I’ve upgraded before and never had a problem.
 * Now I upgraded and I’m getting the following on every page:
 * > WordPress database error: [Table ‘MAIN_USERNAME_wp.wp_terms’ doesn’t exist]
   > 
   > SELECT t.*, tt.*, tr.object_id FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy
   > AS tt ON tt.term_id = t.term_id INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr ON tr.
   > term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN (‘category’, ‘post_tag’)
   > AND tr.object_id IN (11, 10, 9, 8, 5) ORDER BY t.name ASC
 * I’ve seen another post that has similar error message but my problem seems to
   be different. I can log on to my wp-admin page, have access to my posts, I deleted
   all plug-ins and all themes except for the default ones so the problem doesn’t
   exist there. I’m stumped!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_terms-doesnt-exist-1/#post-638588)
 * Does your database (use [phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyAdmin) to
   see this) have the three new terms tables?
 * If not, consider [forcing a database upgrade](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Installation#How_do_you_force_a_database_upgrade.3F).
 * And you do have backups from before you started the upgrade, right?
 *  [oovy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oovy/)
 * (@oovy)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_terms-doesnt-exist-1/#post-638850)
 * If someone could help I’d be very grateful–I have the exact same problem as above,
   and I just forced a database upgrade, which did not work.
 * Everything else is working fine, but I have the ‘wp_terms’ error message showing
   up on my blog where my categories would be (I don’t use categories) and also 
   where my blogroll would be. It also shows up in my Dashboard on the Manage, Blogroll
   and Categories pages. It obviously has something to do with categories.
 * I backed everything up before I upgraded, but I have no idea what I would do 
   with that backup to fix this.

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 * [Database Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-error/)
 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [oovy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oovy/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_terms-doesnt-exist-1/#post-638850)
 * Status: not resolved

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