A WordPress Theme Update Broke My Website
Published on November 7, 2016
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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
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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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