Comments disappeared from Wordpress? Solution
I don’t know how did that happen, but yesterday I noticed all of the comments were vanished from one of my wordpress blog : Calcutta Tube.
I Panicked, as I should, and then tried to search google to see if anybody else had the same trouble. I found few cases for older version of wordpress. Such as for wordpress 2.3, the solution for “disappeard comments” are given by Steve Ferson. I found that David Perkinson had the same problem but he mentioned that it was related to some plugin issue. He thought “google analytics” was the problem plugin for “disappearing comments”. Well I do not have “Google Analytics” installed in my blog, so what is the solution. I checked all plugins to make sure they are “up to date”. Updated few plugins that we not up to date. But still the problem remained. So, I did the most useful thing that I should have done in the first place.
I have Cpanel installed in my server. So, my trick is useful if you have Cpanel or you know how to repair your database!
Log on to your cpanel and you should see something like the image below. Click on the “MySQL Databases”. It will list all the databases you are using in your site.
Browse to the database that you are using for your wordpress. Then click on repair. There are three buttons next to each databases - Delete, Check and Repair. Do not click on “delete” even by mistake!
Hopefully it will solve your problem. It did for my blog!
Enjoy Blogging now!
May 16th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Glad that wasn’t my problem - I’m not sure how long it would have taken me to work that out!
Glad to hear you got it sorted.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Ya! I am glad to solve the issue too!
May 16th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I’ve no idea why the plugin caused my comments to go away. I panicked so much it was un true. I went as far as checking the database and looking in the sql for any clues. I thought i will disable all plugins, once i disabled them my comments came back. I had to disable each plugin 1 by 1 to see which one was making the comments disappear and it was the Google Analytics plugins and it did need upgraded, upgraded and my comments were back forever!
Glad you got it sorted though.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Ya, I can feel that you panicked as much as I did! Still I trust wordpress and more I use it more I am learning.
Next few months I will focus on learning on theaming wordpress. It looks like it is time to learn some CSS and php coding.
Guess what?
I am going to buy Dreamweaver CS3 (400 USD) by the middle of next month. I am hoping to do some experiment with themes and so on.
Thanks for the replies guys.