Okay, there are a few rules I live by that I normally don’t break. One of them is to always always always make a full backup before I make any changes to a website. Especially someone else’s website.
This morning I realized that I hadn’t really upgraded the site with the latest version of WordPress and had simply mananged to dump all of the files into a sub-directory. I was in a hurry and I just downloaded the recommended minimum files from WordPress’ easy to follow instructions. Sigh. Those of you who tried to log on this morning saw the result of that. I overwrote an apparently important file and trashed the site. Oh the files were still here and everything else survived just fine, I just made it impossible to see any of it.
The other rule I broke was that I didn’t leave myself any time to fix stuff after I made changes. I knew I had to leave the house at Oh My God it’s Early and I still made the changes.

I’m an idiot. Many apologies to all of you here at TDB and I can guarantee you it will never happen again.

I’m not saying I’ll never make another mistake, I’ll just never again subject you all to my own wishful thinking.

Thanks to Paul from DangerWest for cleaning up today’s mess. I owe that man a more beers than I can count.

And may I say, “Oh Wow.” to the latest version of WordPress. This is very nice. WYSIWYG. I like WYSIWIG.