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Impact of reinstalling Wordpress
January 02, 2015, 08:41:14 am
My recent installation of Wordpress + CiviCRM has some WP issues. For some reason I am unable to edit the post categories in WP. I've tried disabling all plugins, replacing all the WP core files, etc., nothing works. I think I might have damaged it's database in some way during the last few weeks setting everything up. The source code for WP is impossible to debug, so I'm not going to fix it that way. I'm now looking at completely reinstalling WP, including the database from scratch because I have to get the category editing working. What is the best procedure to protect CiviCRM when I reinstall WP? I will backup the database of course, and all the files. I have an admin login, and 7 other logins set up with special ALCs in CiviCRM, and I suppose I will have to recreate those when I reactivate the saved CiviCRM plugin. I have several weeks spent in setting up the system and don't want to lose the work I've done in CiviCRM - including several hundred members. I can manually import the 200 WP posts from a backup, and copy-paste recover the 28 content pages in a couple of hours.

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Re: Impact of reinstalling Wordpress
January 04, 2015, 05:44:58 am
Save the files for CiviCRM and install WP fresh and then put back the files for CiviCRM and then enable it. That should be enough. For the users, recreate them and then run the synch tool in CiviCRM to be sure it's correct.

I think that will do it.
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Re: Impact of reinstalling Wordpress
January 05, 2015, 04:42:19 am
Paul, if you migrate your existing WordPress *_users and *_usermeta tables across to the fresh install (which shouldn't be problematic if the issue is purely with taxonomy) then Civi's civicrm_uf_match table will retain the correspondences between users and contacts.

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Re: Impact of reinstalling Wordpress
January 07, 2015, 02:37:02 pm
Quote from: haystack on January 05, 2015, 04:42:19 am
Paul, if you migrate your existing WordPress *_users and *_usermeta tables across to the fresh install (which shouldn't be problematic if the issue is purely with taxonomy) then Civi's civicrm_uf_match table will retain the correspondences between users and contacts.

By "migrate" do you mean export the current database's users and usermeta rows to a sql script, then import the rows into the new database? I can do that.

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Re: Impact of reinstalling Wordpress
January 07, 2015, 02:44:15 pm
Quote from: P a u l on January 07, 2015, 02:37:02 pm
Quote from: haystack on January 05, 2015, 04:42:19 am
Paul, if you migrate your existing WordPress *_users and *_usermeta tables across to the fresh install (which shouldn't be problematic if the issue is purely with taxonomy) then Civi's civicrm_uf_match table will retain the correspondences between users and contacts.

By "migrate" do you mean export the current database's users and usermeta rows to a sql script, then import the rows into the new database? I can do that.

Yup, that's exactly what I mean. Good luck!

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