Technical Difficulties: I Broke My Blog

I am expe­ri­enc­ing mas­sive tech­ni­cal difficulties.

I attempted to do the auto­matic upgrade of Word­Press 3.4 and chaos ensued. In fact, I ran around like a chicken with her head cut off won­der­ing WHAT DID I DO!! WHAT DID I DO!! Ok, maybe I didn’t lit­er­ally run around like that but I did feel a sense of panic. A sense of panic that was not helped by hear­ing the chimes of my old­est, Mr. Shel­don Cooper car­bon copy, who log­i­cally reminded me that a back-up should have been done before I hit the but­ton and I may have wasted 3 years of my life on a blog that I ruined in less than 5 sec­onds by not being prop­erly pre­pared. Gotta love the honesty!

{Side note: I don’t really always love hon­esty. Some­times I love white lies like “It will all be OK.” Even as imped­ing doom sur­rounds us. Or “NO your butt cer­tainly does not look fat in those jeans.” Even if it looks like said rear-end is most cer­tainly very fat, so fat even Ste­vie Won­der can see how much extra junk is there from a mile away.}

Any­way, Mike worked this beau­ti­ful Father’s Day week­end on restor­ing the data­base and remov­ing the prob­lem­atic files. I can­not tell you how happy I am that I had the fore­sight to marry a won­der­ful man, who is an amaz­ing father, and who knows his way around the wide world of com­put­ers and the inter­nets. A man who would have the abil­ity to trou­bleshoot for me and spend his time help­ing me. Or I’d be a goner right about now.

It turns out there was an error regard­ing a default theme in the Word­Press upgrade. It is largely cor­rected, but not totally. Right now I can see all my con­tent in the form of every­thing I have ever writ­ten and posted but oth­ers can­not. Also, com­ment­ing does not appear to work on all the posts either even though all the com­ments are vis­i­ble to me. And there are some other cor­rec­tions that have occurred that make me happy since there was noth­ing avail­able before. So, given I had an error mes­sage and then a blank screen of noth­ing­ness for a cou­ple days I will take this cur­rent stage of tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties over the pre­vi­ous sit­u­a­tion. I also will be very thank­ful to my hus­band who is help­ing me save my prover­bial rear. And I will fol­low his advice on tech­ni­cal com­puter and inter­net related items from here on out.

Because he may or may not have warned me that this could hap­pen with upgrades. And I may or may not have said I under­stood what I should do to ensure that chaos did not ensue fol­low­ing an upgrade or blog change but I may or may not have for­got­ten to fol­low all his very sound advice in the moment my fin­ger hoovered over the enter key.

How­ever.

I will NEVER for­get again.

My les­son has been learned. Always back-up and always be pre­pared. And fol­low the advice of those more knowl­edge­able than myself on mat­ters of con­se­quence no mat­ter how big or small those mat­ters appear at the time.

UPDATE:: My perma­links, con­tent & com­ments are all now work­ing for every­one, not just me! Every­one should be able to see, read & com­ment away. Again thanks to the patience & help of my lov­ing & techie hus­band who never once said “I told you so!!” instead he chalked it up to a learn­ing expe­ri­ence for both of us. God, I love him. No seri­ously I really do!

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