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Having a problem with my Wordpress account.
The host server went down the other day and the admins recovered a previous edition. A few posts have been lost but no big deal.
On logging in, I can navigate fine, as administrator, and do everything I used to but with one exception. If I try to add a post it only gives the option to 'submit for review,'and a few test posts indicate that they seem to disappear into the ether. I have looked around all the tools on the toolbar to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this?
I think either your MS-SQL database or the Wordpress core files may have become corrupted. A quick way of checking is to add a new user and check whether that user can post etc. If the user can post then it's more likely a database issue.
Easiest option for the Core files is to re-install Wordpress over top of your current version. Go to the Plugins on the Dashboard and the option may be at the top. If you are on the current version then it won't show and you need to go to the Update plugin page (again only shown if have plugins that have updates).
If re-installing the core doesn't work then the database is likely to be the culprit. No easy way to solve this other than using a plugin to export your posts, pages, images etc. Then you can use PHPMyadmin to empty the database out and re-import the exported files.
Thanks...I'll give all that a go.