My site reset back to the original default

Did you try contacting your hosting service? Sometimes they will have a back up of your site. Not sure what else to say, unless you had some copy on your computer that you saved in a word program instead of typing everything in Word Press. Hopefully you bookmarked any off site links you wanted on the site. Easier going through the bookmarks than having to dig everything back up.

Otherwise an expensive lesson to always back up everything in 15 minute to a half hour intervals as you go along. It depends on how much I get done. I learned back in my college years with three hours of composing and typing a paper, and the power goes out. Didn’t save anything. Didn’t have anything written down or printed except my notes.

If you have to rebuild again, this time it should be a little faster since you already know what to do to customize everything you want. You already found your images. That is a plus. You already know what you want to say, and where to put things. This time it might turn out even a little better the second time around.

Trying to cheer you up a little. Good luck. Remember to back up frequently.

Yes hard lesson learned…. the really sad part is that I should absolutely know better lol. I appreciate your effort to cheer me up. ??

Being Sunday night I didn’t try to contact my hosting service & I’m one of the those impatient people, so I just went ahead and rebuilt it.

But you’re absolutely right – it was WAY faster to rebuild the second time and I did fix a few things along the way. I’m fairly new to WordPress so spent a lot of extra time “learning on the go” (apparently a bit more time on that side of it than I had realized lol) – which obviously I didn’t have to redo (thank god lol)… So my initial panic wasn’t all that bad in the end.

But figured this post and the resulting responses could still be helpful to others.

I must say that I agree with others in this forum though that WordPress really should do something about that little error being so damned easy. I had no clue that changing the URL info under “Settings” could possibly do what it did – there really should be warnings on it.

Doh well – hopefully some people will see stuff like this “before” they’ve made the error.

Thank you for responding!

You are welcome. Glad it cheered you up instead of doing the oppsite. ?? I was a little afraid of that after I posted.

It took me years to learn not to panic even when things seem to be crashing down on your head and going wrong. Worry and panic is in my nature. The big guy is helping me overcome that even now.

I’m on a major learning curve also. I haven’t made a back up yet. I’m still messing around before switching 75+ pages over to WP. Right now all pages are on my computer. It is going to be so easy to export to my computer than what I’m currently doing. When I start doing that, I’ll be saving.

I’m glad to hear everything was much easier for you the second time around.

You are right, they should have a warning. I would think changing the URL is one thing and wouldn’t require a total reset. Changing hosting companies definitely would.