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If you recently upgraded to wordpress 2.6 and noticed that all your categories just went blank (missing), you are in lil trouble. I recently upgraded a blog to  wordpress 2.6 from a older version of wordpress and all my categories went blank. I was in more trouble as i did not do a backup of my wordpress database.

If you have made a backup of wordpress database you can follow the Article written by David Cumps to fix the missing categories for wordpress 2.6. If you havent, its a lesson which you should learn “Always Back up your Database”

How to recover my categories when i dont have a SQL backup?

Note: This method works only if you blog dates back to February 2008 (6 months back from the present)

It is not easy to recover the Categories 100% if you do not know your blog well. Head straight to web.archive.org (it does not keep recent archives) and have a look at the categories there and the posts in those categories for your blog. Head to the categories manage page of your blog where the names are missing and you can see the number of Posts. Click on the number and you can see the posts there. Compare it to Wayback machine. If you find the posts match get the category id from the linkbar and then
http://your-site/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=<cat id>
hit the above link replacing it with your site name and the category and Edit it to the name you matched from Wayback machine.

It’s a very tidious process and you can recover your categories only if your blog is old enough and you know your blog well as in the categories you had added in your blog.

WordPress 2.6.1 is released. Im writing this just to help out people who have made the mistake of not backing up your database.

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This plugin is for those people who are experiencing the post reversal problem in your wordpress theme ie the oldest posts getting displayed first and the latest getting displayed last.

This problem can arise from

• Mysql Upgradation
• WordPress Upgradation
• Changing your wordpress theme

123 No Group By ID Plugin
If you face this problem Download the Plugin  Upload and just activate. Your problem should be solved

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Scour is the a search engine which displays results from Google, Yahoo and MSN. Scour.com lets you earn points for every search you do and you can accumulate points and get gift cards for the points you have Earned. You need to register to earn points.

Features of Scour?

• You can sort searches based on google, yahoo or msn.
• You can Search images and videos
• You can comment on your searches
• You can see the ranking of your search in different search engines
• You can Connect with other scour users
• You can give a thumbs up (vote) to the best result.
• You can EARN points for every search!

What is the earning potential?
If you are a hardcore search addict or a social network user who Diggs and stumbles, scour can prove to be a good earner for you. If you are not, then just dont bother to use scour. Every member is awarded one point for every search, two for a vote and three for a comment with a maximum of 4 points a search. You also get 25% of points your referrals make.

You get $25 Visa Gift card for 6500 points, $50 for 12500 points and $100 for 25000 Points. Do your calculation and see how long will it take for you to make a $100.

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