Wordpress Theme Changed Overnight!
Yesterday I spent about 6 hours re-designing my Wordpress blog. After working very hard on it, I finally got it to a piont that I was happy with. I saved my changes and went to bed.
This morning (May 3rd, 2009) I woke up and went to the blog to see that it had changed back to the themes default values. I do not know how this happened all that I know is that when I went to bed everything was right and finished. Now I find myself starting over again designing the website.
On top of this, the picture files I uploaded to my server were also gone. I have no idea how pictures can just disappear off the server without deleting them. They were not even in the same directory as the theme. Very Weird!
It did not take me that long to re-design it again. I had the picture files already saved and so most of the task was going back into the CSS sheet for the template and changing all the setting again.
I did do some research about this problem but did not find very good information about it. Yes I did find people that have had the same problem. No I did not find a solution to this problem. Most of the people that had the same problem had no idea why it happened and there was not too many people that could answer their question.
Some people said that deleting all the unused themes from your server will help this problem. I am not too convinced that this is the answer. Others said that it has to do with the plugins you have on your blog. This answer convinces me more but I am still not satisfied. I think that it is something in the theme that I used that would do this. What exactly? Don’t know.
I am going to continue to look for an answer to this problem and get back to you. I cant have my Wordpress blog changing everyday and i am sure neither can you.
Here is the steps I did take. I re-designed the theme so it is back to the way I had it. I then created a backup copy of the files so if it does happen again, it will only take me about 2 minutes to fix next time.
If you have experienced this with the Wordpress technology, please leave a comment below and let everyone know what happened to you. Maybe together we can solve this problem.
Sam
Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
