“Stuck” post Category; cannot be edited or deleted

I am helping someone on their blog site and have no idea how/why this Category is “stuck.”

Can someone help me troubleshoot this problematic category? I’m unable to delete or edit the name. You’ll notice it has no checkbox next to it nor does it have a highlighted name to even click.

I’ve tried disabling plugins and, no, this category is not set as the default one for all posts. The “2” posts underneath appear and work fine, too. When trying to add new posts to or remove posts from this category, though, it errors with a “Updating failed. Sorry, you are not allowed to assign the provided terms” notice which is why I’d like to remove and re-add it (I am an administrator for this blog). When trying to re-add a category with the same name, the system also lets me know that it exists already. Mind-boggling.

  • This topic was modified 16 hours, 47 minutes ago by diagnonsense.

 

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