TinkerX

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WordPress funk — call for group mind assistance

For some reason — I hadn’t changed anything, seriously — I couldn’t get into my WP admin module. Which means I couldn’t do anything to the blog. So I upgrade to a later version of WP, updated the database, and deleted (moved) a bunch of plugins. Now, I can get in (as evidenced by this post), but all my categories, permalinks and archives are gone. You can get to any given post by using the “next page” thingy at the bottom of the home page… but everything else is upgehfooked. Search works, too… but not if you then click on the post name.  Weird.

Any assistance from WordPress Gods much appreciated. If I can’t fix it, I may try exporting the whole tham ding and then wiping this build and restarting with a new SQL database, etc.

Or I’ll just start a new blog with a link back to Tinker for old stuff. TinkerX just turned three, and that seems pretty old for a blog with no real cohesive topic. Any thoughts on what kind of more specific blog I might write would certainly be appreciated.

[edit] Dagnabbit. Comments are broken, too. Please send thoughts, ideas, solutions or general commiserations to awhavens@sanestorm.com.

[edit 2] Fixed permalinks, which seems to have fixed comments and archives. Breathing easier. Still working on categories.

Meh.

3 Comments so far

  1. Andy October 19th, 2008 10:14 am

    OK. Comments seem to be working.

  2. Douglas Galbi October 21st, 2008 10:02 pm

    My condolences on your recent grief. I think if I had that kind of trouble, I would move to wordpress.com Have you considered going there?

  3. Andy October 25th, 2008 8:07 am

    Douglas: yes… or another hosted blog property (blogger, etc.). But I like being in control, even if that means losing some time and not knowing what I’m doing.

    There’s a sermon there, perhaps…

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