fun with Wordpress
Well I just spent I don’t know how long uninstalling and re-installing Wordpress. Fun times, let me tell you! *dead*
A little backstory: went to bed at 4:30 in the morning (technically yesterday…), was woken up off and on from 9 to 11 by someone working with a chainsaw, didn’t get up until 1:30. I spent the day very very tired.
I don’t know when I messed up, maybe it was 11:30 pm? I accidentally uploaded the Wordpress config file to the wp-content folder. I thought, Oh crap, and just deleted it. No biggie, right? Wrong.
(I’m going through my old entries and closing entries I don’t like, recategorizing entries, tagging entries… I do this too often, I know. I’m an organization freak.)
I go to edit an entry and find that there’s no place to edit tags. I thought it was the plug-in Simple Tags, so I kept turning that on and off, but that wasn’t it. I kept turning on and off all my other plug-ins, but that wasn’t the problem. (That created more problems, actually. It’s sort of irritating having to rely on plug-ins for my blog to display correctly…)
I realized that not only were tags missing, but all the Advanced Options weren’t nicely hidden away like they usually are.
I tried re-installing Wordpress, just keeping my wp-content folder, but that didn’t change anything, so I moved on to deleting my MySQL database and re-importing the SQL file. That didn’t work either, though. (I got a scary message, “Error in ZIP archive: CRC32 checksum is not equal with the value in header information.” Found out I should try to import from the .sql file, not the .zip file. Luckily Steadfast allows importing of sql files up to roughly 8 mb! [Don't remember the exact number; don't sue me.] Yes, my blog .sql file is over 3 mb big now. *meep*)
That didn’t fix my problem, though, so I just scrapped my whole blog and put in a completely fresh install, all new uploaded files, all new MySQL database, and re-imported my .sql file.
The problem seems to be fixed now. Except … I realized while writing this post that the post page I was working on was messed up still. Argh! At least I was able to save it then through editing the draft, I got the regular page back…
Hm, nope. Every Create New Post page comes up with that blank look. >_< ARGH! Why won’t Wordpress fix itself?!
edit: Wow, I guess it was just that one tab in Firefox (2) that wouldn’t display the page correctly. I spent over two hours trying to fix this on my site when it was just the browser?! *falls over*
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X) At least it’s a relief now, knowing my blog isn’t messed up …
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the esteemed Noellium
28 Jun, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Been there, done that. XO I don’t think it was with a WordPress install, but I do remember doing something that made me feel “Ehehehe…” at the end. ._.;