So my cats are back in the wordpress hat!
After some trouble with my comments going walkies, it seems all is well again in nomad-one land. Turns out the problem was caused by some quota limit which caused some plugin problems and not the plugins themselves so WP Super Cache and friends, my apologies. Donncha was kind enough to point out that the WP Super Cache plugin doesn’t have any code which can access the categories db at all. The WP-DBManager plugin by Lester Chan came in handy and allows you to repair damaged database tables, back-up and restore your database and generally manage and keep your wordpress db in tip-top shape. I recommend it highly as it helped me restore some data which seemed to have been lost.
I’m at a loss for words right now and am hoping and praying that I will find a solution other than having to re-categorize my entire sites posts. Something randomly went wonky with my WP Super Cache Plugin which forced me to disable and then delete it. The result was total loss of post categorization, tagging references as well as loss of my entire blogroll.
If anyone has a solution out there please let me know, I might even reward you if I can manage it. Be very very careful with plugins and remember to keep a regular backup, my last backup is more than a month old. Also export your blog content to an xml file regularly which will allow you to import it all into a new installation should you need to do so.
I’m sorry you lost your categories but I can’t imagine how the super cache plugin caused that. There’s no code in the plugin that manipulates the categories at all.
Did you just upgrade WordPress or install some other plugin?
@ Donncha – You are correct – I had some random quota limit issue which my hostign provider has not been able to clarify, this caused a failure of some plugins including WP Supercache which gave me WP Supercache errors when logging into my site, I then disabled the plugin and when checking my site noticed all my cats, tags & blogroll was gone. They miraculously returned the other day but I found my comments db table was damaged and have just repaired it using Lester Chans DB Manager plugin so I’m on my way to having my site back to 100%. Thanks for your concern and advice Donncha