Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade - Fix Missing Categories
Published by Vijay July 19th, 2008 in Blogging, Other Bloggers, Schmooze, TechnologyMany thanks to David for finding the fix for the problem and posting a detailed ‘how-to’ it in his blog. I followed the instructions and got my missing categories back.
David Cumps » Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade - Fix Missing Categories.
He has indeed given something back to the WP community.
Thanks also to my blog friend Lekhni for tipping me off about David’s post.
PS: I changed the permalink structure for my posts. Made them ‘pretty‘ from the default ‘ugly‘. If any of you have linked to my older posts, the links probably will not work now.
You are welcome ! Good to know it worked!
Don’t worry, the “/?p=xxx” and /?m=yyyymm”, etc. are based on absolute unique ids and other static data in your ‘posts’ table that don’t depend on permalinks. Since I’m a db geek and was originally doing some drupal->wp scripting for the drupal community, my permalinks end in the actual post_id (?p=xxx) because at the time it mattered to me what it was. Now I’m probably going to change it to post slug (word-readable) but leave the rewrite rules in place for the old style too. Realize that you can have any number of permalink structures if you modify your .htaccess manually; the WP utility gives you the current form, but you can chain the rules one after the other so that any would be caught and used.
Congrats on getting it all worked out!
Thanks for ‘clarifying’ that Enrico