lise

I DID IT! I got my comments back from 2 different sources.

l) I did get an answer back from my host OnSmart
and they do backups. They are just fantastic – they restored the data in a text file which I was told to download and then re-import in the database. Now since I don’t know how to do that, I’m waiting for an answer.

2) while I was waiting, I decided to go investigate in my phpadmin for the MySql and see if I can figure it out. But while I was there (MySql scares me cause I’m not sure what to do there), I click on the browse button in the wp-comments and all the comments were there including all the spam I had deleted…(that’s another question I will ask in the forum). So I found the comments I wanted, click on that row where it said edit, then inside I saw there were radio buttons in the section “comments approved” for spam, 1 and 0. I checked my comments that were already approved and see how it worked, and swiched the radio button to 1 and saved and voila, they are restored.

I can’t believe I did it…anyway hope this will help others.

Lise

Thanks everyone, I did write my host as it says somewhere that they do backups but I’m not holding my breath.

I was trying to figure out how this happened and I think I know now. Recently I updated to the new version and on my old version I had fixed it so that the radio button was always set to the delete button as a default and I was sure that’s what the last button was on the moderation page. But it’s not and I don’t what the last radio button is for…anyone knows?

Now with the new version, at the bottom there are new links that either ‘mark all for approval or all for deteletion” and that’s what I did use to get rid of all 800 stupid spam messages left. So now I know and hopefully won’t make this mistake again.

I will for sure be around for the backup week thanks for letting me know.
lise

Thanks coldforged but how do I know if I have a database backup?

Hi, I’m hoping that moshu will help me again on that same subject. I have another blog and I just noticed that the comment author’s link does not open in a new window. I had kept the info from this previous post on my computer but I lost everything on it and the backup I had made did not work. I tried to see on my other blog where to put the target_blank but I cannot find it. Which file do I find it in, please.

Thanks

Thank you so much macmanx, makes me feel better so I won’t panic or anything ??
You made my day LOL

Hi Kaf,
Sorry I forgot to come back here and let you know how it turned out.
I redid everything and it was going fine. I started to add a post and checked the validation and it was ok. So yesterday I went on adding more post but only checked after I had made about 5 and darn, it did validate but with a warning:
Your feed appears to be encoded as “utf-8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”
It gives a link to go see how to fix it but I don’t know how to do what they say to do.
It’s weird because one post was giving me the warning, then I deleted the keyword I had put in the custom field because I was not sure I was doing that right. Once I deleted it, it validated ok without the warning. So good, I kept on adding posts and then I checked and bam, the warning was back.
I’m getting more gray hair from this than from my teenage daughter!
CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE?
thanks ??

Hi Kaf (much easier LOL)
And yes I felt like I’ve been stood up ?? and yes dear, my problem still remains LOL
My sanity??? what sanity? Lost it 2 days ago and Ihaven’t been at my computer since yesterday morning. It was nice not to try to find this ‘thing’ but I still dreamed about it.
Anyway, I just tried what chtito said to do just for the heck of it, and when tried to validate, now the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> moved down to position no 5 instead of 2 like before. Does that help?
Last night I thought maybe it was the login.php and register.php which I did play with, but I took those out of my index.php page and it still does not validate.
I had pretty much decided I was going to reinstall the whole WordPress again because it feels like when you try to fix an old car, it’s not worthed. I made copies of the posts I had, and of course my index.php and my css files.
I can just delete everything from my server and start from the beginning again, right ?? And then just change the index page and css and see if it’s ok. Then change the comments-pop up and see if it’s ok, and so on…. And if it’s still there….well I guess I’ll scream loud enough for you to hear me wherever you live on the globe LOL
I’m too stressed to do that tonight and in the morning we have some place to go so it will have to wait till tomorrow afternoon. If you have any other suggestion before that, I’m still open for now ??
Thank you again Kaf for the time you spent helping me…
Lise

Kafkaesqui (ouf hard name to type ??
When you have a chance, can you tell me how downloading/uploading WP again works? If I only upload the files I have not touched, then we won’t find out where the problem is because it has to be something I did on a file.
And if I upload all the files again, then how do I do that? I copy the files that I changed then upload the fresh files maybe one at a time to see which one is the culprit? But I don’t upload my css and index file? any others I should not touch, this is scary….how about my post that are already there? Not many so I could redo them.
I will attempt to do this tomorrow morning because right now my brain is mush, my back hurts because I’m too stressed and I’ve got to fix dinner.
So if you have time during the evening to get back to me I would really appreciate it.
Thanks ??

Me again ??
OK downloaded again WP and uploaded new wp-includes and pulled up womenscorner.com/wordpress again and looked at the source and I still have this darn whitespace at the top.
I have to leave now again to pick up my daughter and will be back.
Guess I have to upload again WP, but can you tell me which files I can and cannot upload again so not to lose my css and my posts and my categories….gotta run
Thank you sooo much, I owe you a drink LOL

Hi, thanks for coming back ??
I took out anything to do with the wp-grins – I undid everything, and still it’s not validating
I downloaded a new wp-admin/quicktags.php and uploaded again, stillnot validating.
It’s so frustrating, so I guess I’m doomed to have to download again WP…and you said I only have to replace the wp-admin and wp-includes directories? I don’t have to replace anything else, right?

So,
l)I did put the php required on my text page and reupload it and it’s fine there is no whitespace at the top.
2)for WP grins, I added the wp-grins.php in wp-content/plugins, activated that in admin then added the smilies in wp-admin/quicktags.php by adding <?php wp_grins(); ?> at the end of the file. I also added the same code in my wp-comments-popup.php just before the textarea tag id=”comment”
3)if I have to I will download again the WordPress files and hopefully I don’t screw it up LOL
PODZ, yes I know I had read beel’s post but he had redownloaded some files so it could have been in there somewhere.
If I don’t fix this, nobody can RSS my blog right?
Nightmare!
Maybe I should take the grins out and see if it is ok then?

Ok, I’m barely awake LOL but here goes…I copied the wp-blog-header.php here https://paste.uni.cc/6349
Have to take my daughter to school now and then will be back with strong coffee in hand ??
Talk later

I hope so …maybe you’ll think of something in your dreams ??
Thanks

Shoot! I really so appreciate what you’re doing for me ??
But I have to go to bed now ?? and you should too, unless of course you’re in Europe somewhere and it’s noon LOL
Can we pursue this tomorrow morning? What can I do for my part?

Also I tried to validate the commentsrss2.php and it doesn’t either. Does that help?