(worth mentioning that the second time a category disappeared it was because it was empty of posts….took 10 minutes to figure that one out!!)

and I’m losing categorys, granted im going thru every page and putting the right name of the band back again, and then sometimes it dissappears like i was on page 11 then i was @ page 8 then I stoped and then boom back to 11??

Thanks
Dave
AIM – youaretehscene

Thank you, my hero… ^_^

I had also missing link-categories and the same action command did not work for me here. Though I found this site http://neonlabs.structum.net/blog/?p=66 and the advice to ad the names in the wp_terms>>>Here you will add the name and the slug name for each of the categories was very helpful here.

The following error message is displayed:

Upgrading…
Initializing Parameters – Done.
Warning: system() has been disabled for security reasons in /tmp/cpanel_phpengine.1227518059.34446_2pyHIHir on line 1445
Upgrade failed
The database oncall_wrdp1 is not working properly and the creation of a database backup file has failed. Please contact the sysadmin for further assistance. Include this message for reference.
The initial installation has not been modified.

I emailed tech support at my hosting company and had the following reply

This is normally caused by a bad install of a script or a damaged database, you need to double check that
the authors of wordpress have not reported any problems with the upgrade on thier own support forum
Regards,

To date, there has been no errors or problems with the preconfigured installation and and I cannot find anything here on the support forum which would answer this problem.

Any advice people?

With thanks

ugh.

jc

Is it true that phpMyAdmin has to be installed on the server’s machine? I.e., I cannot just install it myself? I am confused about that, I think I can follow the rest of the directions if I can get phpMyAdmin to run.

HALP! ! ! !

Jon C.

thanks dude

I tried your solution and it did not work. Any thoughts for what I could try? and test wp 2.7 beta now

1. Update wp_term_taxonomy.descriptions from wp_categories

UPDATE wp_term_taxonomy, wp_categories
SET wp_term_taxonomy.description = wp_categories.cat_name
WHERE wp_term_taxonomy.term_id = wp_categories.cat_ID;

2. Update wp_terms.name from wp_categories

UPDATE wp_terms,wp_categories
SET wp_terms.name = wp_categories.cat_name
WHERE wp_terms.term_id = wp_categories.cat_ID;

3. Update wp_terms.slug from name (change to lowercase, replace whitespace w/ dashes, remove periods and &’s)

UPDATE wp_terms
SET slug = replace( replace( replace( replace( lower(name), ‘ ‘, ‘-’), ‘/’, ‘-’), ‘.’, ”), ‘-&’, ”);

I just had the same problem that you already fixed, but when I tried to fix it myself following your steps, i had a problem near the end.

I’ve already filled the description of all the categories into the database, but when I enter the admin panel of WP, on Manage/Categories there’s still no list of them, and when I try to edit the name of every category manually (with the http://your-name/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=1), it happens that every ID has already its name, slug and so, but it’s still missing from the category list, and of course, not linked to the posts.

Any ideas? I’d really appreciate some thoughts : )

Cheers!

Erik.

Please.

This took all of 5 mins. Thank you, thank you and thank you.

You’re the man.

Checking my bolg today I get this message instead of any actual category links, “No categories.”

When I go to manage > categories, no categories are displayed.

When I go to Manage->Posts, all Posts are marked as “Uncategorized”. When I do click on any given Post the Categories panel does properly indicate the categories that it belongs to.

I have not upgraded recently and am using v2.5.

I tried your solution and it did not work. Any thoughts for what I could try?

Now I need to import the “Simple Tags” tags into WP. Hoping the Import feature that handles it works, but that’s a problem for another day.

I might be upgrading this weekend, if I remember it :p