This morning we experienced the “Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in .. “ error. I found your support page on the error (my error was line 217 vs 211). I was not able to log into my admin page to update (not sure what was causing this). The recco that I found was to log in via my cpanel and delete and reinstall the plugin, not sure I wanted to delete the plugin not knowing if it would also the menu entries. So I just renamed the plugin directory, was able log in, then went back and renamed the plugin back to wppizza. At that point I was able to update the plugin and it looked like everything was back up and running, at least good enough for the noon lunch hour.

As I went back in for a closer look I found a number of issues:
1) Every menu item had a small chart icon even though we don’t use online ordering – fixed
2) Some of the layout parameters where switched – fixed

The big issue is with one of the menu categories – Appetizers no longer shows up as a category. The Category has disappeared from the category list. I have tried searching for both the name and the slug and it doesn’t find anything. I tried creating a new duplicate category but it gave me a warning that it already existed.

If I searched the “All Menu Items” list for a specific category no items are returned (with any category). When I click on a Category listing for a specific menu item, all of the menu items in that category show up fine. When I do this for Appetizers all of the specific menu item show up as an Appetizers. That confirms that the items are still in the database.

On the specific Appetizer page (2 columns, code below) the only item that shows up the the headline Appetizers.

My fall back is to create a new category for appetizers and move the existing appetizers to the new category. Not my favorite solution but … any ideas on how to address?

Thanks in advanced!
Scott

Sites current configuration:
WordPress 4.8.3 running Executive Pro Theme theme.
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http://larosametuchen.com/our-menu/appetizers/

<h1>Appetizers</h1>
<div class=”theMenuTop”>
<div class=”theMenuLeft”>
[wppizza category=”appetizers” noheader=”1″ exclude=”272,273,274,275,276,277,278″]
</div>

<div class=”theMenuRight”>
[wppizza category=”appetizers” noheader=”1″ exclude=”243,244,245,246,268,269,270,271,731″]
</div>
</div>