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That was the answer thank you! (amazing how sometimes the answer is right in front of you) thanks esmi!

Nada.

All plug in’s deactivated. Flipped to default theme. When I look at the Dashboard it says there are 13 categories.

When I go to the categories page, there are none showing and none, of course on any of the posts.

First and foremost let me say thank you Michael, your help is more than appreciated sir.

Okay, followed your link and performed the table repair as suggested, had no effect. I also went in a deleted 2 plug in’s that I realized were installed the same day the problem started, no effect. Just trying to rule things out.

Here is something interesting I noticed. IN the help article you provided, I looked closely at the screen shots of that person’s database tables and there was one tabled labeled “wp-categories” and in another thread I noted something similar like “cat2post”.

When I look at all my database tables in phpMyAdmin I do not see any of the tables that look anything like they would be related to categories. So is it possible the table for the categories itself could have been deleted? If that is the case, how could wordpress say those categories still exist?

I feel like I am getting closer to the answer here but I am missing something obvious, I can feel it, lol. Any assitional help/advice would be appreciated, of course.

Okay, found my phpMy Admin on my cpanel. Aaaaand I am clueless here.

I can see the databases I have (2 of them apparently) and I can see within one of them where the tables are located, but honestly I know if I mess with this I am going to screw the whole setup.

Would it make sense for me to simply reinstall wordpress?