As a follow-up for the benefit of the group, I want to share the resolution of this issue. The destruction I’d done to my blog was understated in my previous post. While I had mysql tables containing my old posts, I didn’t have a full, working mysql db. I expected to have to write a program to extract all my posts and categories and emit them into a format wordpress could ingest. I knew this would take a great deal of effort and would likely take a week or more given my unfamiliarity with wordpress.
In desperation, I contacted whooami through her blog and asked if she’d help me. Did she ever – my blog was back up and running the following evening! She was very easy+pleasant to deal with, needed almost no help/info from me, and under-charged me grossly. She literally just fixed it. Now I’m on the latest+greatest version of wordpress.
If you find yourself in a similar bind, you might try looking her up…
Thank you, whooami!
