One day, I open my email via mail command and see bunch of error mail received by me, written something like this:

PHP message: WordPress database error Table 'blog.wp_termmeta' doesn't exist for query SELECT term_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_termmeta WHERE term_id IN (108) ORDER BY meta_id ASC made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), wp, WP->main, do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, Jetpack_RelatedPosts->action_frontend_init, Jetpack_RelatedPosts->_action_frontend_init_ajax, Jetpack_RelatedPosts->get_for_post_id, Jetpack_RelatedPosts->_get_related_posts, Jetpack_RelatedPosts->_get_related_post_data_for_post, Jetpack_RelatedPosts->_generate_related_post_context, get_the_category, get_the_terms, wp_get_object_terms, update_termmeta_cache, update_meta_cache

Upon diving in Google ocean, I found this solution that may solve the problem:

CREATE TABLE `wp_termmeta` (
  `meta_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `term_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `meta_key` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
  `meta_value` longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci,
  PRIMARY KEY (`meta_id`),
  KEY `term_id` (`term_id`),
  KEY `meta_key` (`meta_key`(191))
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=3255 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

Use this SQL query to manually add the wp_termmeta table into your WordPress database; if the wp_termmeta table doesn’t exist in your DB.

Credit:
http://zanca.it/tutorials/wp_termmeta-doesnt-exist-error-solved/

By zam

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