My Blog is Back…almost
I’m not sure what happened exactly, but between a few wordpress updates and newly installed plugins, my blog decided to self-destruct. The initial problem was that my category widget entirely disappeared. When I tried to update and even reinstall WordPress, my .css file and images went all haywire and my blog looked like I was celebrating CSS Naked Day. (It’s true, there really is a day in April when some web designers strip their web sites of their cascading style sheets to promote web standards and such. You can read about it here.)
After reading many forums and staring at the php admin screen trying to figure out how to do what the really technical forum people said would work, I opted to export my wordpress posts, comments, etc. and create a new database. After upgrading and importing, now I’m good to go. Well, almost. There are a few minor issues to work out, like category hierarchy and amazon links, but the main thing is that some semblance of Home Sweet Homemaker is running smoothly again.