thissid1

Thanks samboll for the tip but it didn’t work, neither did turning off plug-ins or any of the other ideas out there I found in the forum. It must have been some sort of server side problem because the whole site became unavailable at one time – I walked away from the computers thinking a hack had just done me. 10 min later I came back for another go and to contact the hosting service when everything was back on-line and the Categories were working again – all perfect…

The loss of categories and sudden recovery without intervention seems to have happened to a few people from reading the forum. It’s a little disturbing and I’m still clueless as to what is causing it – but guess it’s server-side and out of my control – I’ll just keep praying!

Thanks
Matt.

YES!! That did it – thanks so much alchymyth – saved me ??
Matt.

I didn’t think to test the default, but no, the default WordPress is not giving me excerpts on the index page either – full posts ?? (same with any of the themes I’ve downloaded)
So can someone tell me where in the code the problem may be?
I’ve got the latest version of WordPress.
Thanks.
Matt.