Good lord blogs are complicated pieces of work.
Alright so I’m running WordPress since it’s the “one-click install” on my webhosting program, and it’s also what I was given when I first started a personal blog a good many years ago by now. (Scary to think how long I’ve been publishing my life online!)
Anyways I went to go upgrade them all when the new upgrade was released that patched a lot of security holes that I wouldn’t understand if my life depended on it. And of course the first thing that happens is my personal blog looks and works fine. I go in to update the database and all is peachy.
Of course. I go in and check out how Big Rock Finish is faring, and am finding that there’s some scary database error showing and none of my page is set up anymore. After freaking out, running in circles going “ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod”…
I finally realized there was an e-mail stating to update the database FIRST before viewing your newly updated blog so to avoid seeing scary database errors.
Update the database.
Blog is… mostly working. My theme reverted back to it’s original, and now I am scrambling to re-insert code, because as only I can do, I didn’t bother to save it before upgrading. Mostly what I’m sad about losing are my little buttons, as those took a while actually to find/locate and to do it again (even though I only hd a few at this point) is feeling quite daunting.
Back to the grind!
