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  • Resolved zaghy2zy

    (@zaghy2zy)


    I was posting a post today when I noticed all my categories and tags were lost. I can’t add new tags or categories.

    But they seem to be there when I get to the dashboard, but the posts no longer have tags or are in categories. I can’t manually set the tags either or assign them to categories. I simply can’t add them to the post.

    Although, I can still add new posts delete them and so on. I can’t figure out what the issue is.

    Active Plugins:
    AddtoAny
    Akismet
    Wordpress Stats
    WP-recapthca
    WP security scan
    Yet another related posts plugin

    Inactive plugin:
    Hello Dolly

    Current Theme:
    Inanis Glass 1.3.6

    All up to date )as far as I know.

    I am the only user on the site.

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  • Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems?

    resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    Thread Starter zaghy2zy

    (@zaghy2zy)

    Thanks for the help… I don’t really know what resolved the problem but it seems that it resolved by itself… It was really weird…

    Completely weird at that… I was able to resume normal operations today… But thanks for the suggestions, I’ll try that when the problem comes back… since it might come back because it came out of nowhere and went away on it’s own…

    I’m currently checking server logs because there might be something suspicious happening on the server side…

    Thanks again!

    I just had the exact same problem happen to me today.

    I was playing around with photosmash plugin these past few days, so I have now deactivated the plugin, however I still cannot add categories or tags to the posts. All posts are still there but not in categories and without tags.
    Theme is: adstyle
    Wordpress version – latest 2.9.2
    latest plugin installed was Photosmash however I have de-activated it.

    Certainly hope it cames back like the other 2 posts I have read on this issue.

    Well blow me away – I just logged in to check the version I am running and all is back – I suspect it was a Photosmash / Databse issue, there was a message at the top of the dashboard previously, something about a database permission setting was wrong for Photosmash!

    Go figure!

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