HELP:::categories have disappeared:::HELP

  • Resolved jacobbie

    (@jacobbie)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    My categories have all disappeared from my blog.

    It’s very strange, because when you look at the dashboard, it says there are xx categories, when I go on the web page itself, posts and menus that are based on categories are still there…but when I go to the Categories tab in the back end, I can’t see the categories. It still says there are xx categories, but I can’t see them and can’t choose a category when I create a new post…not even the default “uncategorized”.

    In the backend all posts also show as “ungategorized” but when I watch them on the homepage they are categorized.

    Please, someone help.

    Sincerely
    Jacob

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  • What happened just before this problem began?

    Thread Starter jacobbie

    (@jacobbie)

    That is the strange thing…I didn’t do anything (as far as I know).

    I logged in to write a new post on my site. As I logged in (using the plugin “Sidebar login”) I noticed that that plugin referred to a //localhost-file instead of the file it was supposed to refer to. Specifically it was when I clocked the “dashboard” link in the plugin that it tried to take me to a localhost-file version of the dashboard instead of the dashboard on the site. So I changed those links, went on to write my posts…and afterwards discovered my problem.

    And now, another problem has arisen…all my menus have disappeared to. I can see them when I choose which menus should be visible from the drop down menu…but the tabs with all my menus have disappeared.

    Is this a database problem? Is everything slowly falling out of the hole in the Internet?

    1. Backup everything immediately. Always advised when things get weird.
    2. Scan the site: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
    3. What is your URL?
    4. Have you checked your database tables for corruption?
    Thread Starter jacobbie

    (@jacobbie)

    ad1. Everything is backed up, so I should be ok
    ad2. Will try that
    ad3. the site is https://tumbling.nu
    ad4. I have no idea how to check database tables for corruption…that’s how smart I am

    Oops, sorry. I completely forgot to thank you for your advice ??

    To check your tables you will need access to something like phpmyadmin? does that sound familiar at all?

    Thread Starter jacobbie

    (@jacobbie)

    It is vaguely familiar, but I haven’t tried working with it. I’ll look into it though. Thanks a lot ??

    Thread Starter jacobbie

    (@jacobbie)

    Problem solved. It is my host that has been messing things up…it seems it’s something they do every once in a while.

    Thanks for all your help though…I learned about phpmyadmin ??

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