WTF All my websites mysteriously screwed up..

Okay, I don’t have any idea of how this got enabled, but under Appearance > Theme Options > Home Page there is a setting called:

Overrides the WordPress front page option

I hope this hasn’t been like this for months.. and somehow I didn’t notice? My content is back but my css is screwed.

Did you, by chance, update Responsive? There were some changes to the way the home page works in the last update, so maybe that’s related. You can get more info on that here:

https://cyberchimps.com/forum-topic/update-1-9/

Man.. I have no idea what [ sweary language removed by moderator ] happened but all my sites got slammed… maybe last update of wordpress bundled in updates for the themes, because all my customizations got removed. Not only for responsive. Weeks and months of work look to be gone. I don’t understand why I just saw it when I haven’t updated anything in a month at least. Maybe I just cleared my browser cache or something.

This makes no sense if the google cache is set at the 16th of April because there is no way I’ve updated to 3.5.1 since then… this was done behind my back somehow.

I think my hosting company did this, almost guarantee it. Other blogs I have not touched in a year have 3.5.1 installed.

First, it will help you to get support here by keeping the language civil.

Second, it is well known to keep a current backup of any web sites managed.

Third, if you are unhappy with your web host there are plenty good ones out there. As in life, the best costs more, but you may be able to get along with something reliable and efficient.

Last, I have not heard of a web host that forces updates on customer sites (at least without providing ample warning)…the right thing a web host would do is take the site down until you properly manage it…in fact I wish all hosts would do just that..

Hi Sea, I found that it was indeed my hosting company that caused this. I do apologize for the language, I was upset with what had happened.

Apparently there was a vulnerability in earlier versions of wordpress that the hosting company deemed a security issue. All my sites besides one were at 3.5.1. They mistakenly updated all my themes, and it deleted all my customizations to those themes. Since some of these themes were from so long ago, it was before wordpress gave much easier ways to modify child themes, so I just modified responsive and other themes directly.

I really wish they would have taken the sites down and notified me. I am not 100% sure they have a backup of my sites, but they are trying to determine that now. Also the hosting company made NO communication to ANY customers of what they did. So the first question when I called was in regards to forced updates, and it indeed happened. My hosting company has been known to be quiet reputable so I am shocked that this happened, but I guess everyone makes mistakes… but the QA behind this… wow.