Urgent help needed ive deleted my website
I cant believe what i have just done, I think i have just lost all 9 pages and 30 blogs of my website that i've sent so long building up.
I wanted to chose a new website theme and without thinking straight i went to site rubix then site builder, filled out the domain, chose a new theme. Thinking it would just change the theme and transfer everything i have done already to set up the site it has now over written it all.
So all i have now is an empty site with a new theme.
I genuinely feel sick as ive put so much effort into this.
Do you know if there is any way or resetting it so i can go back to my previous theme and content. If i lost it all and theres nothing i can do about it then ive no choice but to unregister from WA as i just cant go through all that time and effort again which i hope you all understand. Im not one for giving up in life but this is too much to start over again.
SOS
please help urgently
Recent Comments
17
I've never backed up as had never really thought about it. But now.......yes yes yes I will be the sick feeling I felt earlier thinking I'd lost everything I'm not keen on experiencing that again!
Thank you everyone for your help, it just shows that there really is a community at WA
Oh that is awful I see Topachiever has come to your aid I do hope you were able to retrieve it. I to would have felt sick
Do you personally backup your own SiteRubix Website?
If not, now is a good time to learn how to do it, so that if this were to happen again you could find your backup and revert to it in a jiffy.
To backup your website:
1/ From the WP Dashboard, scroll down the left menu until you reach the heading Tools, then hover your mouse on Tools.
2/ Now click on Export.
3/ Underneath the heading, Choose What To Export, select, All Content.
4/ Now scroll further down to the blue Download Export File button and click on it to create your backup.
5/ NOTE WELL! Note where it is saving the file to on your hard drive or change it so you know exactly where it will be when you need to access it again. Make a note somewhere so you don't forget.
6/ When you are ready to re-instate the Backup, you use the Import feature in the Tools section. But you only do this in the scenario that you mentioned here.
Let me know if you need any further help.
It's a little too late now but for future reference you should have a backed copy of your site. I have used back up by blogvault.
It wooorrrrkkkkeedddd!! I have my website back pheewwww. Site support reset it with the back up of the original before I mucked up.
What a sigh of relief.
What an experience! But this is indeed a great relief knowing that when it happens again, you know what to do. And thanks for sharing. It definitely informs us and make us aware that we can always have our website back just in case. Oh, well, this is technology and there is always a way out.
Don't know whether it will work, but you could try going back to your original theme and see if it's still there. Otherwise do what Loes says.
I've just submitted s support ticket. I've sent a ticket in the past and never got a reply back, by luck I managed to sort that problem out myself. If I don't here back from them again I'll do what you suggest trying.
Thanks for the support so far I'm in a bit of a panic now over this.
See more comments
Hey Kirby, I just got around to reading your post now. What a relief to get everything back after all of your hard grind. Glad you got everything sorted mate.
Cheers
Darwyn