Moominmama

Thanks usedwigs! That worked for me (got this note after automatic update to 2.9.2).

Yup, me, too. My site is gone after upgrading automatically from within the site. Downloaded a fresh install and it’s still gone. I am getting an error message on the dashboard though:

Warning: include_once(/home/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/admin/theme-definitions.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/functions.php on line 72

Thanks for the heads up, dl63! I don’t have that plugin. I did deactivate all plugins and then reactivate one-by-one but nothing helped. Still have no window in my “add new post.” My workaround is to add the title in the dashboard then hit “edit post” and do my actual blogging in the newly opened window.

OK, just an update (in case anyone else is having this issue as well). I still haven’t solved it. I also reinstalled WP 2.7 by the automatic updater and no luck. I’ve tried it on Firefox & Opera on my Mac as well as in Chrome, IE 6 and Firefox on my son’s PC just in case it was a browser issue.

Ok, this is what I did. Headed to permalinks and chose the “custom structure,” which reads: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

Everything now fine and dandy!

https://www.kidsknowstuff.com

Thanks Moshu (I’ve been fortunate enough to get great answers from you before — thanks for being a mod!!). I’m off to try it and if it works, I’ll be sure to update w/resolved.
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Dawn

Otto42, thanks for this. I don’t know what happened but my password went kaplooie and using phpmyadmin didn’t help. But now I’m finally in my blog! I think wp 2.5 has been the buggiest version I’ve used yet and am looking forward to additional bug fixes!

Also having the same problem. Somehow my permalinks got ganked so I fixed those but the feed is still gone, daddy, gone. Argh.

Thanks Moshu! I did get it back up and I’ll tell people what I did so that I can mark this resolved. (Although I don’t think it’s a resolution people will love!)

1. I deleted the blog and dumped my tables (they were mostly empty anyway) and then reinstalled wordpress from scratch.
2. I actually did this several times importing my old entries to the new database via bigdump.php. Each time my blog wouldn’t see the entries so I finally just started over.
3. Since my old blog installation on the old domain didn’t have an export feature I know that bigdump.php was the only way to get 40 freakin’ megs of entries in seeing as how my backup from January 7th was a .sql file.
4. I installed wordpress on my Mac desktop with mmap tried dumping my entries into my local mySQL databases, which worked. My locally hosted blog could see the entries!
5. My locally hosted blog also has export so I exported the files.
6. I broke the enormous .xml file into about nine parts using this guy’s advice. I also upped the php.ini to allow the full 50 megs but this still timed out so I went ahead and broke it up.
7. For content posted between 1/7 and now (because my last backup was 1/7) I pulled from my livejournal crossfeed. I lost the comments but kept the content so I’m feeling like a winner.

I think my blog archives are too big. I think that in a few months I’m going to maybe create an archival blog and start over.

I appreciate the support, Moshu!!!

I know. But then upgrades aren’t supposed to delete entire databases either. I just tried importing the old database into my locally hosted wordpress sandbox and it’s the same thing — it won’t see the entries.

I may just have to say to hell with seven years of archives — I have no idea what the alternative is.

I know, moshu, it’s the most bizarre thing ever. Here’s what I did play-by-play:

1. Downloaded and unzipped update.
2. Opened my account via FTP.
3. Took wp-content out of update files.
4. Copied the rest of the files over.
5. Went to upgrade.php
6. Checked front page and saw site was gone.
7. Edited “Hello” post to let folks know what was happening.

Then I went into my databases and confirmed that all the content is gone. I’ve used bigdump.php to put the gzipped back up into the database but can’t seem to get them to populate throughout my blog.

I definitely did upgrade.php because I typed update.php by mistake the first time. The prefix change — I tracked back — was not an issue. I’ve dumped the whole database backup (from a month ago) into mySQL and am now trying to figure out how to repopulate the blog.

I hate being a cautionary tale.

I do have a backup of less than a month ago but I’m still wondering why it overwrote the entire database. I’ve upgraded a zillion times before and never had to reinstall a database (made me cocky enough not to back up this time — stupid I know).

Any idea why it would overwrite the database? It’s like it sent it back to scratch or something. There are some very very very old tags in the DB but nothing new. (I think they’re tags from before WP bundled tagging into their installs.)

I can recover old posts (and maybe even old comments) from rss feeds but I’m still totally freaked out about how in the hell this happened. Any guesses?

More weirdness — my wordpress is in wrdp3 but most of the tables are appened wp2_

I think this has something to do with the bluehost nightmare when I first moved my (seven years worth of blogging) over to a new server.

It is and it’s worse. My whole database contents are gone. At least all the comments are gone. Which means the entries are probably gone. And no I didn’t back up today.

I don’t understand why this happened.

I feel kinda sick.