I am posting here instead of the wordpress forum because I believe this is really a database issue that I cant figure out. I am running a wordpress site and I just tried to add a item to my custom menu and it doesnt save. I switched to the default theme (2012) and still nothing. I created a new menu, added 3 pages to it and saved....and poof they are all gone. I turned off all plugins and still the same thing.
So I started to look further. I went to upload my header image via the customize in the appearance area and it displays the good old "cheeting huh" text.
Then I added a plugin that I know adds an additional navigation tab in the dashboard navigation under "pages" tab and it wont show up. Also I am unable to access any posts. When I hover over "Posts" is only displays "categories" and "tags". Maybe its an issue with registering post types?
I had a notice at the top of my dashboard area that said I needed to upgrade to 3.5.1 and I thought awesome...ill just upgrade and all will be fine. But it didn't fix it.
I then deleted all wordpress files and replaced them with a fresh download and still no fix.
I searched google and found a possible solution of this:
define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );
to the wp-config.php file just before require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php')
define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);
to the wp-config.php file
No luck their either and my wp-config file looked totally normal.
I also checked my .htaccess file and it looks normal as well:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Finally I logged into my database and dropped all unused tables and optimized what was left but still nothing. This is on a working e-commerce website with over 100 products so it cant just be scrapped.
If I take some alternate routs to get to broken sections like the posts It still wont fork. For example if i go to the front end and go to a post and click edit, there is no button at the top of the page for "add new" like their should be. If I roll over the toolbar "+ new" it doesn't list posts. If I go directly to www.myblogname.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post it says "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page." WHY...i can access everything else and my user role is admin.
So thats where I am now...any ideas? Is this a data base issue because I dont know whats left.
