Categories have disappeared

  • Resolved snidog

    (@snidog)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    I have searched the forums and can’t seem to find anyone else having this issue, so I apologize if it has been addressed before and would appreciate someone pointing me to any previous threads.

    All of my categories have suddenly disappeared. All of my posts are displaying as “Uncategorized” and when I go to Manage -> Categories in the admin panel, it says there are no categories. But the crazy thing is, the database seems to be correct, assuming I am understanding the new schema correctly. All of my categories show in the wp_terms table; the wp_term_taxonomy table correctly has “category” in the taxonomy field for all of those categories; and the wp_term_relationships table seems to have all the correct relationships between the posts and the categories.

    But for some reason, it just isn’t displaying correctly on the site or in the admin panel. And as far as I noticed, the problem presented itself suddenly — I upgraded to 2.3.3 in an attempt to solve the issue this morning, but there were no changes I know of that caused this.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter snidog

    (@snidog)

    In case I’m not the only one who has had this issue, here is the solution I found: restart the MySQL server on my VPS. I am not sure WHY this caused a problem only with the categories, but I restarted MySQL and everything is fine now.

    Thanks for posting your resolution on this issue. I am having the exactly same issue & condition on DB now.
    Although I am not sure if I should start a new thread, I post my further question here.

    How can I restart MySQL on my Dreamhost server?
    Anyone know how to do it? Or should I ask DH tech support to do so??

    Thank you in advance

    Sorry for a confusion.
    I’ve just got thing right now after putting a correct template tag in my own theme.

    I think, like someone said in another similar thread, the deprecated template tag such as list_cats() and wp_list_cats() causes this issue. I did not have to restart MySQL.

    If you have this issue on your blog, you might want to look into the template first. If the deprecated template tag is used, replace it with correct one.

    That’s what I found out as a resolution!

    I’ve run into the same problem, only, I didn’t do anything. I haven’t touched the admin panel in two days. I woke up this morning and all categories are gone, as well as tags. The categories page still says there’s three pages of categories, but… there are none listed. All posts are ‘uncategorized’, and there are no tags.

    How do you restart the MySQL server? I’m on GoDaddy if that helps.

    How do you restart the MySQL server?

    you dont. thats not something you have access to on a shared host.

    I figured. I’ve emailed GoDaddy Support. Thanks.

    disregard this post.

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