An awful blunder turned into an awesome wonder

Background in coding

it is so awesome having a background in coding. Most people would of panicked if they did what took me 4 hours to correct. ( would of taken less had I stayed in college and finish learning this skill.) It truly was simple coding that I had to pull out of a 12 month old memory. (Google assisted me😅) I made a huge blunder that turned into an awesome wonder as I was telling a few friends here last week that I would be updating my website. Because it was not what I wanted it to look like and it needed some sprucing up.

So, I went against my sound conscious and decided to use one of the prebuilt template kits elementor offered. And those templates were nice! The problem with these template versions (called kits) is that they change your entire website and wipe clean all of your modifications. Putting you back to square one, rebuilding your site. Pictures, information, and all.

Backup Safety Net?

Never mind the tissue in the picture you didn't 👀 anything and I'm not hiding any! 😂

Anyway, did I back up my site. But of coarse, word press has back up copies of our site as well with all of the changes we make throughout its life time. Heh, heh, heh. Right? If you would of made my blunder you would be kicking yourself right now. This elementor template kit, Removed, Erased, Deleted ALL OF WORD PRESS BACKUP COPIES! I kid you not. As the picture below shows word press can only go back 5 hours, 😆 which is today! There is nothing else before today and Ive had this website for two years.

Terrible blunder…

So that's two years of history gone. 😆😆😆 I had to start from scratch, luckily I have a good memory so I remembered how my site looked and what went where. I also have my site backed up to a dummy free wordpress account. So I could of gotten all of the info from the backup site and got everything corrected. But did I do it? Nah, I just got the basic information from it (articles, post, etc) and preceded to rebuild my site from the ground up. I like how it looks now. The only issue I have now is duplicity.

I got duplicate articles and comments everywhere. But it's a simple fix that doesn't require coding. 👀 now what did require coding was the comment section, and the showing of the comments. This took me back to my college days 12 months ago. With the help of Google I fix that small issue with my site and everything is a lot better 👍.

Not perfect but surely not a empty canvas…Word to the wise as we are forewarned here, please do not touch the code if you do not know what you are doing lol 😆. GET AN EXPERT, I'm just hard egg 🥚.

Have a wonderful day!

Ms. Kida 😁