So, I called 1and1 again this morning. The issue was there were two versions of the database for the site and the tech on Tuesday had restored the older, obsolete one. So, Rod (which I’m certain is his real name… ) dug in, and restored the newer database! Woo hoo! Saved from my own stupidity. I lost two updates, and those were easy peasy to redo. Geeze. Anyway, next time, we’ll probably queue up the “wayback” machine and look at some pictures from when we were in New Orleans. stay tuned, and thanks for your patience.
Sigh…
Good intentions. I was playing around with the site on Tuesday after posting the previous message. Several themes had been downloaded, and played around with. To the point that I realized I was doing more damage than not. So, I got this wild hair that I would reset the theme settings. Doing some innerweb spelunking, the WordPress add-in WP Reset is recommended for this tasking. Obviously, I didn’t thoroughly read the documentation as WP Reset not only resets themes settings, it resets EVERYTHING, including deleting all the media on the website. Luckily, I had done a site backup, but that was basically just the text, and all the links, no…
All things WordPress
So, some time back, I stumbled across the template that I’m using for this site is Photo-Diary by Mark Sitco. If you’ve been following along, firstly my apologies, but secondly you will have noticed that I’ve tried some other themes, but eventually gave up and came back to Photo Diary. The downside to all this is Photo-Diary has been abandoned and it’s been over 2 years since it was updated. And it’s beginning to show. For good or for bad, WordPress is evolving and Photo Diary is becoming less and less compatible. Sigh. Amongst the other things going on in my life right now, I REALLY didn’t want to add…