upgrading to worpdress 3.5 erased all posts and pages, wiped database
- by James
So I have upgraded to wordpress 3.5 and that seemed to have erased all posts and custom post types, media images, sliders etc'
I have made a backup using both pressbackup and backupbuddy but when I try to restore the database (or everything). when it is done, if I look at the front end, everything is back and looks great but then when I go to the back end it says the database needs to be upgraded and doesn't let me bypass that. if i click ok it prompts the following message and after that everything is wiped again:
WordPress database error: [Table 'db446353270.wp_categories' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_ID
WordPress database error: [Table 'db446353270.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT post_id, category_id FROM wp_post2cat GROUP BY post_id, category_id
WordPress database error: [Table 'db446353270.wp_linkcategories' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM wp_linkcategories
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'link_category' in 'field list']
SELECT link_id, link_category FROM wp_links
please advise.
Thanks