Filled Under: Site Crash
Don’t try to fix me, I’m not broken…
Hello, I am your mind giving you someone to talk to. Hello.
Unless of course it really WAS broken. Which it was. and after several days of no time to try and fix it, I tried, but to no avail. My “Sidebar” was stuck as part of the center column and I couldn’t find the code to return it to where it should be. I could move it above, below, and even amongst the posts on the main page, but not on the right, outside the white center column of this “Elegant Brit (b)” theme I love so much. Even worse, it was fine on some areas of the site, such as when one opened an individual post. Comparing the different php pages lead me to nothing. I looked at all the CSS. I even read the code generated on the client! My brain was ready to explode and I was getting angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
Four flippin’ hours later, I’ve manually uninstalled WordPress, deleted my database, cleared the tables 6-7 times, edited my database tables, panicked, had a few drinks, installed 2 programs, restored my database information 5-6 times, explored tar balls and moved a cumulative 30-40MB of data back and forth through cyberspace, all to get back to where I was minus ONE problem. I can say that I have finally fixed the sidebar…sort of. I didn’t technically fix it, since I never found out what was wrong and undo it. I just rebuilt my blog from the ground up from various broken backup files and a hand written list of plugins versions.