khaosx

Well, it happened again – the list broke. I edited a post which was showing up as an article, added a category, assigned the post to the new category, and removed the post from the previously assigned category.

The new category will not show up in the articles list. If I assign the article its original category, it will show up on the articles page as before, but only in the 1st category. Nothing assigned to the new category will show up on the articles page.

I was actually going to close this issue tonight. I can’t tell you what fixed the issue, but I can tell you what I did that caused it to no longer happen.

Initially, I deleted all of my categories, wiped my database and restored everything from a WP XML dump. This did not have any effect. As soon as I deleted a new category, it refused to show up in the article list.

After an inadvertent deletion of my backup file and a second wipe of the database, I found a copy of a SQL dump generated by the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin (which I have not reinstalled), and restored it via my SQL admin tool. I then went through the upgrade process again, and reloaded all my plugins. The problem has not cropped up since.

Essentially, I:

1. Wiped the database
2. deleted my entire web root
3. Installed 2.2 series
4. Restored from a SQL dump, NOT a WP backup
5. Resinstalled all plugins
6. Configured site back to normal.

It’s a royal PITA, but at least the problem hasn’t shown up again. I’ve tested every scenario that I could think of to make it break, and it just doesn’t.

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