So here’s what happened:
Somewhere between me attempting to update one of my plugins and me doing nothing at all, one of my plugins decided to die on me. Unfortunately, this happened to be the plugin that runs the slideshow of feature posts atop the front page of my site. Even more unfortunately, none of my attempts to restore the plugin files to the versions from the day before solved the issue. Eventually, I had to restore the site back to a backup from the previous week, which had the most unfortunate effect of erasing some of my most recent articles.
It could definitely have been worse, but I’m not to happy about it, especially given the effort I put into getting the design of my site to where it was.
So I’m regrouping right now, giving some thought to what I want to do next. There will be some more animation writing from me and the site will continue; I’m just not sure in what form yet.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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Hey Sara,
Sorry its taken so long to post this, but I use an automated backup plugin called ‘WordPress Database Backup’.
I have it set up to create a backup of the post & comment database and e-mail it to me every day in the event that should something happen to the site, I can simply upload the backup and carry on.
Having said that, it only works for posts and comments, not the site itself. For that you’ll have to go to your cPanel (or equivalent) and do a full site backup
Charles
LiveJournal appears to have entire IPC posts, unless there’s a cut. I just looked at http://inkandpixelclub.livejournal.com/ Perhaps you can retrieve some of your posts from there?
Hi, sorry to hear of your troubles. Hope things move ahead soon.
How’s is your project coming along? A new update would be neat! Try to back up the database in WordPress every now and then to prevent these things from happening.