Whew!
You may or may not be aware that my site was down most of the day yesterday. Steve Knight first gave me the heads up and I made some quick changes on the way out the door to the grocery store that I thought would solve the problem. And they did — temporarily.
When I got home all I got was the white screen of death. No pages. No posts. No WordPress dashboard. Nothing. So I did what I usually do. I started stripping things away. Themes, plugins, etc. That didn’t work either. I did some Googling around. Some people had the same problem and were able to fix it pretty easily by tweaking some memory limits. That didn’t work. I tweeted about it and go some good suggestions (thanks Gideon) and some not so good. None of them really worked.
I wiped WordPress off my server I don’t know how many times and uploaded fresh installs. Nothing. I started to panic. And for most of the night (and some of this morning) I thought I might lose all my posts and comments.
It turns out my sql database was somehow corrupted. So corrupted that I couldn’t use my main backup and had to export and import reach table manually. I’m still not done. A lot of meta-data still needs to be dealt with and I know that some links are dead.
But the good news is I didn’t lose anything. If you stopped by here yesterday and got nothing but a white screen I apologize. Hopefully over the next few days I can get thinks back up to normal.
So much for starting off the week with a Moltmann post. Those will come soon. I promise.
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