If you see this post a few times it’s because I really need help and I’m posting it on three of my blogs – sorry for the repeat, but if you can help, please do!
I need some help fixing my husbands blog – Guitar Licks. Today when he visited the site (while I was still sleeping) the blog had error messages stating that the WP_posts database had crashed.
When you visit his site it loads with the WP theme and sidebars, but there’s error messages at the top and a “post cannot be found” message where current posts should be listed on the index page.
Some of the errors state:
ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD FULLTEXT `yarpp_title` ( `post_title`)
ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD FULLTEXT `yarpp_content` ( `post_content`)
So I’m assuming this error has something to do with the Yet another related post plugin that I’m using on most of my blogs. This blog is using the plugin version 2.16 and is using WP 2.62.
In the Yet another related posts plugin admin area there was a message that said:
YARPP’s “consider titles” and “consider bodies” relatedness criteria require your wp_posts table to use the MyISAM storage engine, but the table seems to be using the engine. These two options have been disabled.
To restore these features, please update your wp_posts table by executing the following SQL directive: ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` ENGINE = MyISAM; . No data will be erased by altering the table’s engine, although there are performance implications.
If, despite this check, you are sure that wp_posts is using the MyISAM engine, press this magic button:
I clicked on the “magic button” as the plugin seems to be working just fine in all of my other blogs and I ended up with even more errors!
Help!
I’ve looked at the WP database for this blog and the WP_posts table says “in use” and I can’t browse it. I also can’t use the backup plugin in Guitar licks – it’s there and functioning but just hung when I tried to do a back up.
I’ve backed up the whole database using PHPmyAdmin so I have a copy in case something goes terribly wrong. Now I just need to know how to fix it.
Should I just place a check mark on WP_posts and then click the repair function at the bottom of the structure screen in PHPmyAdmin and see if that repairs the problem?
I’m nervous about attempting to fix this as I’ve never had to try to repair a database error before. Any help would be appreciated.
I’m so sorry, I wish I knew how to help 🙁 If I were you I’d try doing a reinstall of WordPress with a new database and import everything, including the posts table. I really don’t know what could’ve caused this as I’m not a database expert. This post is a couple of weeks old now though so I’m hoping you’ve already worked out a solution. Best of luck!
Sorry for my English!
I got a similar error, with a wordpress blog.
Table that generated error was WP_OPTIONS, and I resolved this problem with
CHECK TABLE wp_options;
OPTIMIZE wp_options;
Before doing the steps below, make sure that you back-up your database. Here’s what you can do.
1. login to your cpanel
2. click the phpMyAdmin icon
3. select the database from the list (if you don’t know your database, ask your host). you will see the table structures.
4. check the box of wp_posts table
5. at the bottom of lists of the tables, click the drop down menu (default value is “With select”) and select “Repair table”
6. login to your wordpress dashboard and check again.
hope this helps.