A couple of days ago, I noticed that my WordPress Dashboard didn’t show any of the “recent comments” items — neither comments or trackbacks — and that the data of number of posts and comments said there were “0 comments”. At first I thought it might be that Intense Debate was playing with my mind, so I deactivated it… but nothing happened. I thought maybe it was some WordPress mumbo jumbo, so I let it go for a day or two. But it started to bug me.
I didn’t do any updates to WordPress… or to any of the plugins I used, so it must have been something else inside. With the plugin on, there were comments, but without it all the comments were magically disappeared.
After a few hits, I found this thread on WordPress.
Basically, if you’ve got a self-hostel WordPress blog, go to your Webhost’s control panel. Head over to the mySQL options, choose the appropriate database (the one that holds your WordPress info), and hit repair. That did it.
Some of the trackbacks I did during this database wonk don’t show up. How to send the trackbacks again?
Weird… I do the repair/optimize database every couple weeks to keep things clean and neat. Make sure to backup your database from time to time! What do you mean by trackbacks? The ones that you “send” will continue to exist but the ones that you “receive”, you can’t really receive again if they are lost. In any case, trackbacks are overrated ;)
I should really make a habit of backing up every month xD
The trackbacks I did, I posted the newest OK Go video with links to the other videos they’ve released this year, and while they show up on the “sent trackbacks” list, the links don’t show up in the rest of the posts.
I’ve gotten a lot of spam trackbacks~
Intense debate has been running a lot smoother for me than Disqus did. Unfortunately there is so few bloggers using Intense Debate I need my points to go up!!! =)
The more you comment here… and your blog, it's quite easy to make it go up. Also, the longer your comments are, I think it goes up faster.
sorry, replied with the wrong account xD
Oh I didin't know lenghty comments gave even more points.
Are you still having WP issues?
No it's been fine. The trackback comment was due to the database issue – haven't been able to resend the trackback, but the new ones are fine.
I think its quite obvious that Intense Debate have had a lot of issues for its users since they have one of the most exposed reinstall button I have ever seen.
I am soooooooooooooooooo grateful. I was losing my mind. I have been working on trying to restore comments since yesterday and all I needed to do was press REPAIR DATABASE! how does the database get damaged in the first place?
@Nollywood Forever, I know, right?
Weird tech stuff…
Glad this post help.
@Nollywood Forever, actually… there’s a new issue with WordPress, and I just noticed it. Reparing the database didn’t help.
It’s also not letting me access the stats for all my different blogs from within WordPress.com