I downloaded a plugin that caused my WordPress Admin Dashboard to crash. I used Jetpack to revert to a day-old version where everything was working great, but my WPForo reverted to it's stock form, with no posts or comments, and the original forum categories. At WPForo's dashboard, it prompts that there is a WPForo Database Update problem, and to use the Troubleshoot to correct it. If I let the troubleshooter button correct the issue, I suddenly have three different categories in my WP Dashboard: WPForo, StormCloud Forum (my blog's forum), and then the stock "Forum" one. On my forum, it shows some of the old comments, but incorrectly attributes them to one author, and on another the comments are hidden altogether. On the original articles, the comments show correctly with no issues.
Please help me correct this. It's incredibly confusing and I'm at a lost of how to fix it. If it helps, I did delete the plugin that caused the issues.
Hi @kylededi
Ask your host if there is a backup that was created before you installed this plugin.
This second board "Forums" didn't exist until I used the "Troubleshoot" button on WPForo's dashboard.
Delete this board
Then go to Dashboard > Overview and click the [Delete all caches] and [Hard Flush Permalinks] buttons.