wenchkin

Paying someone isn’t an option, my client is a charity so it’s out of the question to throw money at the problem, It’s a very basic site at present, but I need to either get the tags and categories back or look at re-installing. Or worse still re-doing the site. I don’t want to do anything drastic unnecessarily, especially as I don’t know that a re-install will fix the problem.

It’s just frustrating because WordPress is a gem 99.9% of the time, but getting support for the odd wierd problem feels like finding a needle in a haystack ??

If anyone can please help me with this problem it’d be most appreciated. Even just a rough idea would be a start.

Excellent, much appreciated ??

Wenchy

Ok, just noticed that none of my posts have tags anymore. The tags are still there and I can select them, but like the categories I can’t get any changes to save.

Pascal, do you know what the host company changed or how the issue was resolved? I have exactly the same problem, so I’m curious how you fixed it.

Yep, I think in practice the complete cpanel backup wasn’t as complete as expected heh. I’ve got most of the content in the old blog at Blogger so I’ll just re-do what I did the last time.. All the pages were from old html ones and were backed up on this PC which is fortunate.

I’m careful backing things up too usually, I just didn’t realize I wasn’t backing the databases up along with the website. Oopsie! My bad for not double checking in the first place. I don’t think there are many missing posts though, so it could have been much worse.

Appreciate the advice you’ve all offered though ??

None of the .sql files seem to contain any posts. It’s odd, because all the minor bits like the forum have their own database file, yet the folder I have with the subdomain files doesn’t have anything resembling a database inside. I just wondered if there were specific file names that wordpress used to help track them down more easily.

I’ll keep looking, there’s a stack of files to nose through ?? I had pulled most of the blog’s posts over from Blogger, so I can repeat that if they have gone AWOL. It’s just to avoid re-doing the pages I had set up and get back the more recent posts I made.

Aha, yeah I wasn’t sure if I’d really break a plugin by deleting it heh. You’re right though, that got rid of the unwanted one!

I’ll keep trying with the others ??

Couple of things I’ve just noticed, the plugin that won’t activate highlights white instead of yellow and I get the same confirmation message problem if I try to deactivate all plugins too.

Wenchy