Here’s my site. Pretty blank, yeah? Well here’s why…
[Editor’s note: This posting originally appeared as the sole item on the home page when the site ate itself. The site is obviously no longer “pretty blank”, but this posting has been left as-is for historical purposes.]
Towards the last weekend of January, I got into my management portal and kicked off upgrades of all of my WordPress sites. All of them upgraded fine except — you guessed it — this one.
I have backups so no problem, right? Well, apparently, wrong.
I’ve spent portions of the 2 weeks since the implosion attempting to resurrect my site in a variety of ways, if only long enough to where I could take prints of all my pages. But no, none of the ways I attempted to get it back worked. So much for backups.
So here we are. Between the Internet Archive and Google’s cached copies of the site, I think I’ve got copies of all the important data from the site, so at least there’s that.
What happens now?
I don’t know yet. I will be making hard copy printouts of the stuff I was able to recover and putting it in a binder so I will have the bulk of my notes. Beyond that, I’ve made no decisions on what I want to do next. I acknowledge that it was nice to be able to access the information from pretty much anywhere I needed/wanted to, but I’m feeling so frustrated right now that I have yet to convince myself that I want to go through all this again. Add to that the fact that the WordPress people keep changing their software so now I will have to completely relearn it (just like everything else computer-related, it seems). Seriously, would it kill these companies to maintain some semblance of friggin’ consistency? As it is, they are consistently inconsistent, so I guess there’s that…
I guess all I can say right now is check back at some point and maybe you’ll see change. Or maybe you’ll just see this message for the next decade. Nobody knows…