Posted 3 years ago #
I recently upgrade to WP2.6.2, and now all the category functionality is gone.
The posts had lost all their assigned categories.
However, it's not a big blog, so I can probably go and reassign categories manually.
The problem is that although I can add new categories, they don't seem to 'stick' to my posts. No errors, nothing, it's just that the posts stay uncategorized.
I don't need to recover my old categories - I just want category functionality to work again.
Posted 3 years ago #
Oh, and all the links disappeared as well.
They're still in the database - they just don't show up on the site.
Posted 3 years ago #
Unfortunately this was a terrible problem a lot of people had when upgrading to WP 2.6+ when you went from certain older versions of WP.
I think it worked right for those who upgraded every step of the way (WP 2.5.1 etc)
There are numerous threads & blog posts on other websites explaining ways of fixing it. Far as I know you have to go into your SQL database using phpMyAdmin.
It has to do with the categories, taxonomy tables in the database.
I do not know if this blog has the best answer, but this is one blog that tries to explain how to fix it:
http://blog.cumps.be/wordpress-26-upgrade-fix-missing-categories/
Hope this helps! If anyone knows an easier way, please post it!
Posted 3 years ago #
Well... no. David Cump's solution doesn't work for me.
Weirdly, the links are all still there, and browse-able in wp_links. They have the category id field populated, and the link categories still seem to be there in wp_terms. However, the category # in wp_links doesn't seem to match the category # in wp_terms.
What strikes me as bizarre is that I can add categories in wp-admin, but they just don't seem to "stick" to the posts.
Posted 3 years ago #
Another oddity - whenever I edit a post, it seems to create a new copy of the post in the database. If I carry out 7 edits, 7 copies of the post are created. Only the first (unaltered) copy is shown on the website, however.
Posted 3 years ago #
the extra copies in the database has to do with the new (WP 2.6+) feature called "Post Revisions"
If you don't want that action, there are 2 plugins that can disable it, or a manual code method described here,
http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/07/17/how-to-turn-off-post-revision-in-wordpress-26/
I don't know whether this would solve your other issues, or if this will even help. You might like that feature.
Posted 3 years ago #
gpvillamil, did you ever figure out why your categories didn't "stick" when you selected them for a post? If so, how did you fix it? I am having the same problem and I am at a dead-end and could really use some help!
Thanks! :)
Posted 3 years ago #
I was able to fix everything after all.
My website had actually been hacked - there was a bunch of hidden metadata in the index page, pointing to a variety of dodgy pharmaceuticals and Viagra sites.
Clearly, whoever hacked the site also tampered with the database structure, and this was probably the cause of the problem.
So I backed up my SQL database, deleted it from the server, and installed WordPress from scratch. I then restored each individual table from the backup - data only, no preferences or anything like that. I used a text editor to go through the database and identify each individual table, splitting them out into separate files.
Once done, everything worked again, even post numbers and permalinks.
It was a while ago, and I didn't keep track of what I did in too much detail, otherwise I'd post step-by-step instructions.
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