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1. bcp
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello All,

   I was still on version 2.1 of WP. I upgraded using fantastico after I deactivated my plugins. All went well, except I have no categories for my post or my links.

   Suggestions?

   Thanks,

   bcp

2. bcp
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Apparently all the tags also went missing. :(

3. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The same thing happened to me (I was upgrading from 2.2.2), but I was able to install the Auto Tag plug-in to add tags to my older posts so that wasn't too big a deal. I can't find a plug-in to add categories retroactively, otherwise I wouldn't be bothered too much, but I have a lot of posts and had loads of categories so I'd rather not have to go back through all the posts one by one.

4. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I too have lost categories - when I view the categories sections in admin I get a long list - with no names of cats - but tells me how many post are linked to the name less categories. Also categories missing from my archive page.

   I really want them back I do not want to go through it all again.

5. seedpxwee5
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Erm, I found this error as well. But was fixed when I uploaded a new .htaccess
   Which I think I've accidentally deleted when I was upgrading.
   Good luck trying ^^

6. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 1 year ago #

   My .htaccess is empty. No code at all in there. Even my old backup is the same. Restoring the old (empty) .htaccess didnt work either. Is there supposed to be something in the code there?

   Any help would be great!

7. mrmist
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Do a quick search as there are posts detailing how to fix the problem.

   If you have the option to restore, you can upgrad via version 2.3 and it would be ok.

8. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Actually, I found this article, and it worked perfectly!

   http://blog.cumps.be/wordpress-26-upgrade-fix-missing-categories/

9. svirsk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   a friend of mine wrote these lines of code to do it automatically:

   update wp_term_taxonomy, wp_categories set description = cat_name where term_id = cat_ID
   update wp_terms, wp_categories set name = cat_name, slug = category_nicename where term_id = cat_ID

   am not really into coding, but maybe it might help someone

10. YOUAREtehSCENE
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Where, do I insert that coding?

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