Hey Everyone. I just upgraded from WordPress 2.1 to 2.6 and the upgrade went smoothly except for one thing. It dropped the "description" field in my 'category' database. My back up has the descriptions in it and I have access to PhpMyAdmin and have found the directory where the descriptions should be (wp_term_taxonomy). I would like to edit each row in that directory and add the correct "description" (category name) through the PhpMyAdmin interface...BUT, I can't figure it out! Can anyone help explain to me how to edit line items using PhpMyAdmin? I hit the little pencil next to the row I wanted to edit, but there is no box associated with the 'description' field to put in the description name that is associated with the id #. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just a quick not for anyone else researching the topic in this thread regarding my WordPress upgrade and trying to make changes in the Database using MyPhpAdmin: After reading a few blogs that described the same upgrade problem as mine, I tried follow their directions of editing the 'wp_term_taxonomy' file in the MyPhpAdmin interface on my web server. When I clicked on the pencil in the row of the "browse view" that I was trying to edit, I wasn't given the option of editing the 'description' field (which would theoretically add the category name back into all of the blog posts they were assigned to). A friend of mine helped me access the site via Shell and walked me through getting the proper directory to change the category names. That directory was: 'wp_terms' The code we used to replace out those fields was: I hope this helps. Good luck!