All Categories Disappeared!?

  • Hi guys, ??

    So I woke up this morning and attempted to post a new news item on my site and discovered all the categories were missing:

    https://idgmr.com/img/wordpress-categories-1.png

    https://idgmr.com/img/wordpress-categories-2.png

    The front-end now just shows all posts as ‘Uncategorized’. The categories are still there because when I try to add the same categories I get a message saying it’s already there.

    I tried disabling all plugins (they’re currently still disabled) and I also tried re-uploading the latest version of wordpress (all but the WP-Content folder) via FTP to my site.

    Anyone seen this before? Any way to fix this?

    Thanks! ??

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  • Have you asked your hosts about this? Do you have a recent database backup?

    Thread Starter Unit9

    (@unit9)

    Hi Esmi,

    Thanks for your reply! I appreciate you taking the time to respond. ??

    So yeah, I got in touch with Media Temple and they say nothing has changed on the servers. The thing is though I have 8 installations of WordPress on this server and it’s happened to every single one of them.

    I’ve logged into phpMyAdmin and checked the ‘Terms’ databases (taxonomy and term relationships as well) and they all seem fine.

    Not sure what to do as Media Temple are asking for $79 to restore the databases. ??

    Any suggestions would be gratefully received! ??

    Thread Starter Unit9

    (@unit9)

    Hi again Esmi. ??

    I’ve just turned on WordPress debugging:

    https://idgmr.com/

    This is the error I get:

    WordPress database error: [Got error 28 from storage engine]
    SELECT t.*, tt.*, tr.object_id FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON tt.term_id = t.term_id INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr ON tr.term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN (‘category’, ‘post_tag’, ‘post_format’) AND tr.object_id IN (501, 506, 522, 525, 527, 529, 533, 535, 537, 539, 541, 547) ORDER BY t.name ASC

    I’ve tried also repairing the databases in phpMyAdmin but no luck.

    Try:
    – switching to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    – resetting the plugins folder phpMyAdmin.

    – then (and only then) running repairs on all database tables.

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