The Remodeled Blog

So I trashed the site…

So in my wonderful attempts at upgrading, at wordpress’ annoying insistence I totally trashed my entire site. I know you can’t tell by looking at it. But this is not the same blog you saw yesterday. This is a whole new blog. Yes, if you look closely, you will see some differences.

So during my updating process I accidentally deleted my config.php file. For those of you who don’t know what that is, be happy that you have never had cause to know what that file is and why it is important to your life. For bloggers, just let me say NEVER DELETE THIS FILE! and you life will be happy and peaceful. I did delete this file…and then everything went bad. I couldnt fix anything. I couldnt get into anything. I did have the foresight to backup my my SQLdatabase files (again if you don’t know what these files are, consider yourself lucky).

So after trying to recreate this config file to no avail, I realized that I just trashed my blog. I didn’t panic. I didn’t scream. A silent “crap” ran like a subtitulo through my mind…..and yes “subtitle” did have to be in spanish. My cognitive thinking switched into another language.

Mierda! Por dios! Estupida! Que hace? QUE HACE???? Joder.

I looked at my little backdoor entrance to my blog and saw it sitting there. Just looking at me, with its innocent html coding and sweet css style sheets. But like a teenage before puberty, I knew that the wp_config.php file was a bad case of acne that just exploded all over its face, and now the hormones have kicked in. No matter how perfect it looks, it will never work right again. Unlike with a teenager where you just have to accept this nightmare they have morphed into….I crossed my fingers, help my breath and knocked on wood so much my knuckles are bloody…with my mouse finger hovering over delete I thought, with resignation, there is nothing left to do. Then I clicked.

Just like that, it was gone from the world. The only evidence is in the memory of those who have read it and in the dead links floating around the internet. So easily gone.

Well, the dead was done, so now it was time to see if there was any validity to other people toting’s of my web design capabilities. I recreated the blog. Slowly, created a shell, where all the code files were there, but none of the content. I looked through the backdoor window, and all looked good. Into my database I crawled and coaxed in my archived posts. Holding my breath, I loaded the site. Though it looked like Frankenstein’s monster, the posts were there. Big sigh of relief. Now it is time for plastic surgery.

That is what is left. I have changed the side bar a bit. There are some remnants of code inside the old posts, because I chose not to reinstall an element. I have made some improvements and will have to keep tweaking things here and there until it is back to where I want it to be.

So as I talk about remodeling my house and myself and some other random things mixed in between…for the first time, I had to remodel my site.

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