Title: plugin ate my posts?  database completely gone.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# plugin ate my posts? database completely gone.

 *  [zippityd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zippityd/)
 * (@zippityd)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ate-my-posts-database-completely-gone/)
 * this has happened twice now. i moved my work’s website to bluehost a week ago,
   and twice now, after creating all the posts, categories and pages, the wp_posts
   table completely gets sucked dry. first time, i couldn’t remember what i’d done
   right before it happened, all i knew is that suddenly all i was seeing in “manage
   posts” was that default “hello” one, instead of the 15 posts i’d spent the previous
   2 hours creating. the template and plugins were still there, but the plugins 
   were deactivated, and suddenly the default theme was selected instead of my customized
   one. effectively, my site got forced back to the default install, erasing all
   the work i’d done.
 * so it happened again last night, once again, suddenly all posts gone, all plugins
   deactivated, all categories gone, all pages gone, and moved back to the default
   template. when i check things via phpmyadmin, my wp_posts table is completely
   wiped clean, has only that default “hello” post in it.
 * last night all i can think of that may’ve caused this is that i had just installed
   and activate the “event calendar” plugin.
 * only other thing i can think of is that i have been experiencing nothing but 
   problems since i moved this site to bluehost. also,, though i know you’re not
   supposed to, i’d installed wordpress last night via fantastico, with plans to
   undo the damage i’ve heard it can cause, security-wise.
 * has this happened to anybody before? i mean, a database table being completely
   wiped clean?

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ate-my-posts-database-completely-gone/#post-555615)
 * First thing I would suspect is that the host restored the table from backups 
   for some reason.
 *  Thread Starter [zippityd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zippityd/)
 * (@zippityd)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ate-my-posts-database-completely-gone/#post-555632)
 * that’s what i suspect, but they’re denying it. and i’m unfortunately not geek
   enough to figure out if i can prove they did this by looking at logs.
 * i’m currently reinstalling, this time manually, and will set-up a nightly cron
   backup, so am keeping my fingers crossed.
 *  [veo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/veo/)
 * (@veo)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ate-my-posts-database-completely-gone/#post-555931)
 * i just went through the same thing. apparently, gate.com’s sql server went down
   this past saturday, when it came back up, all my data was gone.
 * I realize that this post is 5 months old. Just irritated that a hosting company
   can just jack your data like that without a warning.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ate-my-posts-database-completely-gone/#post-555932)
 * Hopefully you have or will use the information at [WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups).

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