Disappearing posts

Strange problem. Came across an old blog posts with 500+ spam comments on it (I am using Akismet and Intense Debate plugins). I logged into my site, went to the post and began manually deleting the spam comments from the post editing page. I deleted a dozen or so when the screen froze. I clicked the All Posts link and – horror – every post was gone. No Posts Found.

Ack. No posts (I had close to 200 published posts plus a dozen or so in draft)

Also, every comment, gone.

And – if I try to add a new post, I do not get a publish button, but instead a Submit for Review button. Curious.

Now, could very well be I’ve hit some sort of db corruption, so I am going to look deeper into this. And (whew) I do have a backup. But before I restore, I want to dig around & find out what’s going on and see if this type of behavior has happened to anyone else.

This blog is old – been running WordPress since 2005 or so, but hasn’t had a significant hiccup in all the years. And, being that it is a Dad blog with my memories of my kids on it, I’m trying hard to recover my memories (here’s hoping the backup works).

The url if anyone can help out is https://dadventure.ca

Thanks, all