Title: lost taxonomy meta
Last modified: April 18, 2020

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# lost taxonomy meta

 *  Resolved [Vyacheslav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badarmor/)
 * (@badarmor)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-taxonomy-meta/)
 * Hi.
    Today I noticed that all meta fields in taxonomies such as description were
   lost some how. They are just empty. Unfortunately our team noticed it so late.
   And for this moment many changes in database were made. So we can’t just backup
   old db. First look in your code said me that this data is stored in wp_options
   table in ‘wpseo_taxonomy_meta’ record. So i copied the content of this record
   from local test machine where i restored old database where data was ok, there
   i can see huge array. And past it via phpmyadmin in the ‘wpseo_taxonomy_meta’
   record of work site. I cleared all caches, deactivate and activate the plugin.
   But nothing was changed. And if i made changes through wordpress interface in
   this record just see new inputs, and old data become lost again. May be you cache
   this in transients or any other reasons so i can’t restore it through phpmyadmin?
   Is there any chance to restore old data. Please provide step by step instruction.
   I’m the developer. So any advanced advises are appreciated. Please help, we have
   about 500 taxonomies. It’s really difficult to restore all of meta manually by
   hand. Thank you in advance.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years ago by [Vyacheslav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badarmor/).
    -  This topic was modified 6 years ago by [Vyacheslav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badarmor/).

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 *  Thread Starter [Vyacheslav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badarmor/)
 * (@badarmor)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-taxonomy-meta/#post-12694454)
 * Already found the solution. This record even in old backup database was somehow
   corrupted. So I had to take even more older database (month old). This is a great
   lesson for me. Folks store your backups!!!

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