mdelfino

How did you resolve this?

Turned out to be a disk space issue preventing MySQL from writing a tmp file… space increased and problem resolved

Marking this as resolved

Turns out the problem was due to an upgrade on the MySQL server, a permission was incorrect and meant a temp file could not be written and once this was fixed it all came back.

Go Figure… had to get the host to sort it out

Interesting development:

I cloned the site not including the uploads folder as it was too big (I moved that with FTP) to one of my servers and it seems to be ok there… the categories are showing again.

I did an install from Installatron via cPanel and then used infiniteWP to clone the malfunctioning site onto the clean install site. I then copied the upload folder (/wp-content/uploads/) using FTP and tested… all is well.

Now I’m going to try the process in reverse… doesnt eplain the problem, but does provide a work around… will update once I’ve done it in reverse

Hi Esmi,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

I have disabled all plugins and even activated a basic standard theme and nothing changes.

I also reloaded all files except wp-content and wp-config.php after deleting the old ones and still no joy

when i go to posts->categories in the admin dashboard, It shows that there are 43 items but the list is empty.

Surely this can’t be the first time this has happened… any suggestions as to where to look would be awesome.

I am stumped personally