This isn’t going to be a pretty post with pictures, because the reality is ugly. I didn’t lose anything physical, don’t worry about that. I lost everything on my blog. Everything. The only thing that remained was my domain name(highlatravels.com). Everything else, all my posts, the entire website, all the time that had gone into it. Poof.
What happened?
I wanted to give the blog a little makeover, so I made a subdomain to edit(subdomain.highlatravels.com), without affecting the current blog if anything went wrong. May I remind my readers, I have no idea what I’m doing here. Everything you see on this website is me figuring it out as I go along.
You can tell I’m not an expert because my main mistake was not backing anything up. I won’t lie, it didn’t even cross my mind. I thought editing the subdomain would keep the main blog safe from mistakes and changes. And it did! I began editing it without changing the main domain, it felt like a little success.
So what went wrong?
In the midst of editing the subdomain overall, I didn’t like the look and feel of the edits and I wanted to start over. During this process, I *accidentally* gave permission to overwrite all my wordpress files and reinstall wordpress..
That was the moment everything was wiped and replaced with a fresh clean slate. The same as if I’d never done anything to the blog at all. To say this was a bad day was an understatement.
Looking on the bright side
After an initial tantrum over it, my incurable positive attitude (Ben would probably put this differently) I saw it as an opportunity for a clean slate and redesign the blog from scratch. Luckily, I had the majority of my posts text saved in Google docs and the associated images neatly tucked away into post-specific folders on my desktop. Meaning although everything had been lost, it wasn’t impossible to bring it back to life.
So if you’re looking for a particular post on my blog and you can’t find it, or a link is showing an error 404 page, please bear with me while I take time to reupload all the posts. It’s not the quickest process. Especially while I’m still trying to add new posts as well as revive the old, and apply for jobs which is feeling like a full time job at the moment.
What now?
I do encourage you to explore the new website as it stands, there will certainly be bits I’ve not retouched yet. Get a feel for the new website, I hope you’ll like it better than the previous version! I’ve put a lot of time into it over the past couple of weeks to get it to resemble a blog and function.
