upgrade to 2.6 categories screwey, not there

  • I have an upgrade problem I’m hoping someone can help me with soon! I’ve explained the problem below in a rather long post but I’m sure there’s more info someone might need, just ask and I will do my best to provide anything additional. THanks for looking and helping!

    I have 2 installations, one live, one developmental:
    https://bridgewaychurch.com/okc/ on Apache 1.3.37
    https://dev.bridgewaychurch.com/okc/ on Apache 2.0.61
    Both are running php5.2.6 and MySQL5.0.15

    I checked out the 2.6 version in the development site for plugin compatability and got everything working that needed to be so I decided to upgrade the live site. After upgrading the live site, no cateogries are available in the left hand menu! Or anywhere for that matter that I’m able to tell. for example:

    https://bridgewaychurch.com/okc/category/house-churches
    This is the first landing page to the blog app from the main site menu (if you click CONNECT). This access attempt not only provides an example of the sidebar categories being borked (view the html source on the menu for a weird treat) but it also returns a 404 error for the article

    https://bridgewaychurch.com/okc/
    This is the WP installation root, it’s populating with articles just fine, you can actually move through the articles via the PREV/NEXT functionality but again, not cateories in the sidebar.

    So at this point to me it looks/looked like a mod rewrite URL permalinks thing maybe (anytime category is in the URL the content is 404). I’ve verified it’s the same as the correctly functioning dev site tho, and this doesn’t explain the bizarre html being output to the sidebar.

    a few other instances of bad foo to do with categories:

    https://bridgewaychurch.com/okc/wp-admin/categories.php
    Page is rendered but in the category list NAME and DESCRIPTION are all blank, POSTS column *is* populated with the number of posts in the ghost-like categories

    https://bridgewaychurch.com/frontpage.php
    Custom page that pulls the posts from the “latest news” category, PAGE BROKEN, not pulling the posts

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