A Valuable Wealthy Affiliate Life Lesson Learnt Today - Don't Run Before You Can Walk

bySeasiders1

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7 years ago

For the first time in my first couple of months at Wealthy Affiliate, I learn't a valuable lesson today and that lesson was Don't run before you can walk!

As I continue to work myself through level 3 of the excellent training programme on offer here at Wealthy Affiliate, my newly found limited technical knowledge and over confidence had led me to believe that I wasn't happy my current theme for my website.

Following valuable feedback from fellow Wealthy Affiliate members, I had set about trying to preview my posts on my homepage instead of having all my posts fully open and available to read which looked like a never ending story. Having carried out some research through my dashboard and dabbled through my settings I hadn't had any success in previewing my posts.

Therefore, having completed another section of training, I decided now was the time to take some decisive action and change my theme, what could go wrong.....................

Well as it happens and as I learnt, quite a lot can go wrong and it can be very time-consuming retrieving everything, if your lucky. Having spent a couple of hours admiring many website themes of which each one seemed to be more technologically advanced than the last, I eventually settled on one.

On the face of it looked fantastic, scrolling pages and articles with more headings than I could dream of. It even came with additional recommended plug ins which as a novice I only too readily took advantage of. I was started to feel like I was uncovering a Russian Doll as the next page I opened offered me a more advanced theme than the one I initially chose, so what did I do.

You guessed it, I chose a more advanced theme and this is where I started to notice it was all going wrong. As like a swimmer who has just dispensed with their armbands and naively swims to the deep end only to find themselves out of their depth, I suddenly noticed I was out of my depth and the following had happened:

- My Home Page was blank

- Posts were no longer under headings at the top of the website

- My page had suddenly had fashion related content (I have a travel related website)

- I had about 20 extra headings at the top of my website

At this point I thought I had destroyed a couple of months work with just a few clicks of a button however after a couple of hours frantic searching around the back end of my website, I managed to retrieve all my content, eradicate all the additional content which had arrived on my site and reverted back to a much simpler website.

Most importantly a lesson had been learnt as I return to concentrate on my training........... Don't run before you can walk!!!