Thanks to one of my gorgeous readers – Jeanie – I found out that my blog had all but disappeared. Any page I tried to view gave me a 404 page error. Everything else was there, just no content. She emailed me first thing this morning and I didn’t read it until I got back from my mini Easter break this afternoon.
I immediately panicked and wondered when the last time I did a backup was – too long ago I’m sure. Once my little panic was over I thought I’d better fix it.
Knowing that WordPress runs from databases I logged into my blog’s Cpanel and went to view the post database to see what was there. A message informed me that I had a “WordPress MySQL database error: Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired.”
After doing a quick search I came across this very helpful post, and within a minute had repaired my database and was back in business. So if this ever happens to you, it’s probably a database error. I’m thankful that it wasn’t someone hacking in which has happened to me before too.
Naturally I’ve now done a backup. I was imagining having to manually redo my last few week’s worth of posts since my last backup but it’s all sorted.
Whew.. I noticed that yesterday but I thought maybe you were just doing an update or something. Glad to see it wasn’t a disaster!
Oh, just caught up on the last 3 posts as a result of that – yay (that is more my side of the fence than yours!).
Eeek on chocolate eating cockies – mind you, when a rabid hippie and making eco-friendly cockroach baits, one of the main ingredients was cocoa – beggars love it!
Yipes… that is scary. Thank goodness you found the fix quickly. I have an automatic database update, but I need to backup my files as well, in case. Thanks for the reminder and sharing your experience.
~ Kristi
Michelle, I too am glad that it wasn’t a disaster.
Kristi, Yes, I need to investigate the automatic database update.
Thank goodness you were able to save it 🙂
Hope you had a nice mini break. Glad you could fix the blog with not too much drama.
Welcome back!
WordPress has been giving me the irrits of late, and another recent change gave me a new frown line. Glad you are up and running again OK!