This is a duel edged report… on one aspect I learned that when you install a WordPress.com (WPC) plugin that needs an API and access to your wordpress.org (WPO) self-hosted blog, you might be in for a world of trouble.

Also, despite all manner of advertising saying that allowing a WPC plugin access to your WPO blog does not slow your blog down… I say bushBA to that!

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Where Did My Tags and Categories Go?

I’ve had a brusimm blog “entry” over on WordPress.com (WPC) for sometime now.  Quite a few years actually.  But the other day I had been tinkering with it and then when I was done, I decided to actually create a new blog where I would start to point to my other blogs and the things I talk about.

I fully formed the blog where WP obviously created a database file and such over there and I put in a few entries and away I went.

(Background:  I had installed some WordPress plugins that had to allow WPC access and an API key was required between the entities.  I never thought about how integrated the two would become because of that.)

Then a few days later I had logged in here on Brusimm.com and as I was writing a new post, I noticed that my tags and categories were gone.

This was distressful because I have a few plugins that work off of these two entities, and sure enough, those plugins were belly up at that moment of what I can only now call, entertaining distress.

I touched base with my most excellent host, HostGator, and they indicated they didn’t see any issues on their end and I started to ponder WTH was up and realized that this was an interesting problem that seemed to coincide with my new WPC blog.  (Which, BTW, looked eerily like my WPO self-hosted interface!)

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But Where Did My Self Hosted WordPress Database Go??

So I headed over to my .com side of things and decided I really don’t need that blog over there and I can just get rid of it and simplify my day.  I was thinking this because of the timing and such… I start ‘it,’ and then my problems over here started up.

I deleted my brusimm.wordpress.com blog.  G’bye!

Then “stuff” hit the fan!

First, all my tags and categories showed back up.  Cool.  But then a few minutes after that my posts started to disappear from here, my self-hosted blog.  Then I started to encounter a database error message in place of my hard work.  And finally, when all was said and done, all the problems went away.  But that’s because after about five minutes, here on my .com site, I was looking at the “Five easy minute install” window instead of my own blog.

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