Frustration
It’s 2:49 am. I just spent all day, since 4:00 pm, setting up a new web site for my college course using WordPress. Tons of modifications, getting all the appearances just right, setting everything just so. Arranging all the links. Setting all the pages and graphics. It was a bitch of a task, but I bore down and got it nailed. The site was perfect. Beautiful. Just like I needed it to be.
So I closed down all the local files I was using to work on it, and did a bit of other work before heading off to bed.
And after finishing that, I checked the site.
Completely. Wiped. Out.
All that work, gone.
Somehow, WordPress decided that everything should be set to zero. I have no idea how it happened, only that between finishing the main body of work and doing that last bit of touch-up, WordPress completely reset the site and erased everything I had done over the day. The only thing I can think of is that I left open a page in my browser that set up the blog in the first place, and it must have reloaded by itself and re-established the blog… as blank and new.
2:55 am. I am too tired and angry beyond description. Somehow, tomorrow morning, I will rebuild all that work, hopefully in less time now that I have worked out the kinks. Still. It is at times like these when you feel like tearing someone’s head off.
You must have been very annoyed by that accident… very tough job.
Perfect works wiped out… how pity.
I hope you good luck from now on.
Sounds like a pretty serious bug if it wiped out all of your work.
Do you do your preliminary work on a development server before moving it over to wherever it will finally live? It might not have made much difference in this case, but sometimes that way of doing things forces you to work with backups always foremost in your mind–because when you are finished, the first thing you have to do is recreate the site on the production server.
Good luck with the second attempt. I hope it works out better for you than this attempt did!
Arrrrgh! Been there, multiple times; know how you feel. That’s why I use backups, backups, BACKUPS with everything I do these days.
Thanks for the support! I fixed most of it, but hey… what’s computer life without losing several hours’ worth of work every few years or so?