Strange Subject Mismatch in Catalog

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#1

Hello,

I help to administer a consortial instance of PressBooks that we host ourselves. Right now our catalog has just one book in it, with the subject “Musical Instruments”. However, in the catalog itself, the “Filter by Subject” dropdown only contains one subject - “Medicine & Nursing” (despite the fact that we have no books on that subject in our PB instance). “Musical Instruments” does not appear as a subject available to select among the catalog filters.

Here’s the catalog showing under “All Subjects” just “Medicine and Nursing” alongside the book information for our only public-facing book (showing the subject “Musical Instruments”):

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Is there something we need to do to get our Catalog to index the subject information for our book correctly - or perhaps this is a bug - or we’re just not understanding how those catalog filters are meant to work? Thanks for any advice!

-Lauren

#2

Hi @Lauren_Magnuson – that looks unusual – it may well be a bug. Can you share the URL for your network catalogue and the book in question so we can look into it further? It would also be helpful to have the contents of your network’s diagnostics page (which can be found at https://[yournetworkurl]/wp/wp-admin/options.php?page=pressbooks_diagnostics)

#3

Thanks @SteelWagstaff! Here’s the URL of our catalog:

I’ll put the output in the next post because Discourse will only let me put 1 URL per post. :slight_smile:

#4

and here’s the output of our diagnostics page:

System Information

Root Blog Info

Root Blog ID: 1
Root Blog URL: https://pressbooks.palni.org/

#5

Browser

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WordPress Configuration

Network URL:
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Version: 5.5.3
Language: en_US
WP_ENV: Not set
WP_DEBUG: Disabled
Memory Limit: 64M

Pressbooks Configuration

Version: 5.17.2
Root Theme: Aldine
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Pressbooks Dependencies

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Must-Use Plugins

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Network Active Plugins

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Really Simple SSL: 4.0.5
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Root Blog Active Plugins

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Pressbooks: 5.17.2
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UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore: 1.16.43
WP Mail SMTP: 2.5.1

Inactive Plugins

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DreamHost Panel Login: 1.0.0
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Pressbooks: 5.14.2
WPForms Lite: 1.6.4.1
WP Super Cache: 1.7.1

Server Configuration

PHP Version: 7.4.11
MySQL Version: 5.7.29
Webserver Info: Apache

PHP Configuration

Safe Mode: Disabled
Memory Limit: 500M
Upload Max Size: 512M
Post Max Size: 512M
Upload Max Filesize: 512M
Time Limit: 120
Max Input Vars: 1000
URL-aware fopen: On (1)
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PHP Extensions

OPcache: Disabled
XDebug: Disabled
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imagick: Installed
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