What just happened to my site sucks so bad!
So this is what happened today. I have been working on my website for hours and hours in the last mont. I really put some hard work into my site. Like a crazy amount of work. I went to go try a different theme and installed and activated it. After installing the theme I went back in to my site to see how it looked and to my dismay my site was gone.... EVERYTHING!!!! All gone. I didn't worry because well I knew there would be a backup. I asked to have my site restored and the last backup they had was when I started my site.
This is unbeleivable and really upsetting. I put so much hard work into my site and it's just gone. EVERYTHING!!!! This is nobodies fault but mine but I didn't think installing a new theme would wipe out my site. Well it did... It's all gone and I want to throw my labtop at the wall. Why did this happen to me. I had traffic on my site and it's all gone from installing a different theme.
I asked the support team if maybe they could help out with some credits because I spent a lto to get the comments on my site and they did not even reply to that request. I don't feel like building another website from scratch cause thats what I will be doing. Cause thats the backup they have when I started.
I can't even begin to tell everybody how I am feeling right now. This is what I am going to do tho. I am going to rebuild my site and I am going to get the traffic back no matter how many hours it takes.
I am not going to give up tho. I will rebuild and even if Wealthy Affiliate doesn't want to help I will still make i!!!!
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I'm SO sorry to hear this T, this can happen and its a nightmare. Chalk this up as a learning experience.
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Sorry you went through all that. I think one of the first lessons they could teach is how to install a backup plugin. I back up my site every week. Some do it after any new content is added. Jim
thank you and the lesson I have learnt from this is I am going look into how to backup my own stuff
Wow! What a moment! I use Filezilla (an ftp program) to connect to the server and download the files from my website to keep as a backup. If something happens to the site, you'd just reupload the latest files back to the site. I store a copy of my site on my computer and also copy it to a external backup hard drive every time I down load a new copy. I download a backup any time I make some decent progress on the site and then delete the old backups from my computer and hard drive since they take up a good bit of storage space. I wish you luck and speed with rebuilding. Definitely download backups as you make your new progress.
Awwwwwwwww. I'm so sorry to hear that. :(
My thoughts are.. I bet you will make it even better than it was. :)
I wish you the best. Ask Site Support again. Paula
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It's the early stage of your website development so there's still plenty of opportunities to recover what's lost. Some people here have experienced a lot worse. I've been there.
Tips - use your free siterubix account to test out themes and plugins before running at full speed. Apply what you learn, test it with dummy text (get from https://www.lipsum.com/) so you can beef up the content a bit to get a good feel. Get opinions from other members to see where you are going.
Don't feel disheartened, Trevor. If you need anything, please let me know.