A WordPress Theme Update Broke My Website
I created a child theme because I read that if the main theme has an update there is less chance the update will do harm to your website (the child theme). Well that did not happen.
I spent hours and hours yesterday rebuilding my website because the main theme had an update and it completely broke my website.
I had to search for a new website cause it would not work even after re-installing the theme
I had everything set up the way I wanted it after many tedious hours of work and in less than a minute it was all undone. Made me so unhappy.
Not to mention all the wasted time.
So my message today is be careful with Wordpress updates. I don't know that I will ever do an update again. It will be even harder to rebuild as it gets bigger and bigger.
I said it before and I say it again.
I hate WordPress!
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WOW, that is really messed up. I hope you keep your head up and I know all the work that goes into this . I wish you the best on your next website. Stay positive :) I know it's hard right now. If you need anything you know we all are here to help any way we can!!
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Thank you for the info Marion. I really need to learn this. Never want to go through that again!
Yes it is a free theme. I paid for a theme back when I was first getting started and that totally messed up the website. This guy who created it had lots of pictures and posts. There was a bull picture and I had like 20 copies. It took so long to delete all the pictures, there were pages and pages and at least 20 copies of each picture. I got aggravated so went with a different theme all together.
I have not had much luck with wordpress so far.
That sounds terribly frustrating. I was going to recommend considering a paid theme since free themes are lacking by design. It seems that sooner or later free themes run their course of usefulness. Hope you have better luck in the future.
It's so important to back up your site before applying ANY upgrade. In my opinion, the easiest way to do that is through FTP (Filezilla).
I have plugin for backing it up but I have never used it. I guess I should read about it and learn how to use it.
Thanks for the reminder. Totally forgot I had it.
Plus it was after I just woke up and my day off so I was itching to get started and just clicked it without thinking.
I also have UpdraftPlus, which is arguably the best backing up plugin available. It's really neat because you can automate your backups and you can back up everything to places like: drop box, google drive, amazon s3, etc.
I highly recommend it.
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So I wanted to add something real quick. I started BootCamp Phase 2 and stopped on lesson 5 due to many things going on. Today I clicked to start again - Lesson 6 - its all about backing up your website. hahaha. If I had not stopped when I did this would not have happened. smh.
Wow. Thanks for the update! I have had questions and yes find the answers later in the training. Best of luck!