could not insert term into the database. wordpress

go into operations and set the number for auto-increment to be higher than your highest term_id (click on term_id until the highest numbers are at the top (0 being the lowest), you’ll have the number).

You should try ALTER TABLE wp_terms AUTO_INCREMENT = 1 then. Please note that it will set auto increment to 1, which means that you will need to re-enter every term you have in that table or any other term and taxonomy related tables. It will probably break the connections. Safest way would be to delete all the terms and taxonomies from admin area and then run this code in SQL from phpMyAdmin. Repeat this code with every table related to taxonomies and terms (just change the table name in code)

Problem 1: wp_terms, wp_termmeta and wp_term_taxonomy all had their ID’s set not to AUTO_INCREMENT.

Solution: ALTER TABLE table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = increment_number

This sets AUTO_INCREMENT manually to a selected number
increment_number value must be at least one number higher than your current highest number of that table’s primary key that is auto incremeted
Also, don’t forget to change table_name

Other way would be to use the same code: ALTER TABLE wp_terms AUTO_INCREMENT = X but take the highest ID in wp_terms table, add 1 to it (e.g highest ID is 83, add 1 to it and you get 84) replace the X with that value (84 in our example). Do not forget to backup your database if data is important!

wp_terms, wp_termmeta and wp_term_taxonomy all had their ID’s set not to AUTO_INCREMENT.

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wp_terms AUTO_INCREMENT not set

their ID’s set not to AUTO_INCREMENT.

my case 541

ALTER TABLE 2xpwp_terms AUTO_INCREMENT = 543;

ALTER TABLE 2xpwp_termmeta AUTO_INCREMENT = 1419;

ALTER TABLE 2xpwp_term_taxonomy AUTO_INCREMENT = 542;

MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows). (Query took 0.0107 seconds.)
ALTER TABLE 2xpwp_terms AUTO_INCREMENT = 542;

MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows). (Query took 0.0428 seconds.)
ALTER TABLE 2xpwp_termmeta AUTO_INCREMENT = 1419;

Nothing changed

wp_terms, wp_termmeta and wp_term_taxonomy all had their ID’s set not to AUTO_INCREMENT

Manually by php my admin table structure

1.backup 3 tables wp_terms, wp_termmeta and wp_term_taxonomy

2. click on table structure of you notice extra with no “Auto increment” click on change

3. and tick the A_I auto increment as show in below image.

ALTER TABLE wp_terms AUTO_INCREMENT = 1

Set auto incrment in wp terms wordpress phpmy admin

ALTER TABLE `2xpwp_terms` CHANGE `term_id` `term_id` BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;

Query error:
#1062 – ALTER TABLE causes auto_increment resequencing, resulting in duplicate entry ‘542’ for key ‘PRIMARY’

#1062 – ALTER TABLE causes auto_increment resequencing, resulting in duplicate entry ‘541’ for key ‘PRIMARY’

object cache eabled

cleanup SELECT * FROM `wp_term_relationships` not did anthinhg

Orphaned relationships

Maually add tags in wordpress phpmyadmin worked

insert in php my admin nit relecting tags or cats

INSERT INTO `2xpwp_terms` (`term_id`, `name`, `slug`, `term_group`) VALUES (‘542’, ‘faculty jobs’, ‘faculty’, ‘0’)

wp terms table columns

term_id`, `name`, `slug`, `term_group

wp_term_taxonomy colums

term_taxonomy_id: A unique ID for the term and taxonomy pair

term_id: The ID of a term in the wp_terms table
taxonomy: The taxonomy in which the term resides
description
Parent
count

INSERT INTO `2xpwp_term_taxonomy` (`term_taxonomy_id`, `term_id`, `taxonomy`, `description`, `parent`, `count`) VALUES (‘542’, ‘542’, ‘post_tag’, ”, ‘0’, ‘0’);

Now tag got inserted & reflected in wordpress dashboard.

Table: wp_terms

Field	Type	Key	Default	Extra
term_id	bigint(20) unsigned	PRI		auto_increment
name	varchar(200)	IND
slug	varchar(200)	MUL
term_group	bigint(10)		0

Table: wp_term_taxonomy

Field	Type	Key	Default	Extra
term_taxonomy_id	bigint(20) unsigned	PRI		auto_increment
term_id	bigint(20) unsigned	UNI Pt1	0
taxonomy	varchar(32)	UNI Pt2 & IND
description	longtext
parent	bigint(20) unsigned		0
count	bigint(20)		0

wp_termmeta columns

Table: wp_termmeta

Field	Type	Null	Key	Default	Extra
meta_id	bigint(20) unsigned		PRI		auto_increment
term_id	bigint(20) unsigned		IND	0
meta_key	varchar(255)	YES	IND	NULL
meta_value	longtext	YES		NULL

ALTER TABLE 2xpwp_termmeta AUTO_INCREMENT = 1419;

wp_term_relationships

post_id value = object_id

Field	Type	Key
*object_id*	bigint(20) unsigned	PRI Pt1
term_taxonomy_id	bigint(20) unsigned	PRI Pt2 & IND
term_order	int(11)

ALTER TABLE wp_termmeta MODIFY COLUMN meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_terms MODIFY COLUMN term_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_term_taxonomy MODIFY COLUMN term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;

1062 – ALTER TABLE causes auto_increment resequencing, resulting in duplicate entry ‘542’ for key ‘PRIMARY’

Manually add catoegires in to dataabse

INSERT INTO `2xpwp_terms` (`term_id`, `name`, `slug`, `term_group`) VALUES (‘556’, ‘admit card exam date updates’, ‘admit-card’, ‘0’);

INSERT INTO `2xpwp_term_taxonomy` (`term_taxonomy_id`, `term_id`, `taxonomy`, `description`, `parent`, `count`) VALUES (‘552’, ‘552’, ‘category‘, ”, ‘0’, ‘0’);