Friends, and the Importance of Backing Up Your Files

This brief post has nothing to do with nourishing, healthy food, but everything to do with the operation of this site. It was down for a little while (last night until this morning) because I tried to add something to a Thesis file when I barely knew what I was doing, and that hosed my site. When my site was down, I was so disappointed in my inability to fix the immediate problem.  But hey, I’m no php programmer… though now I know a little more than I did.

Thank goodness for backing up files! I was smart enough to think ahead and copy and paste into Notepad the original contents of the file before I did anything; I also viewed the file in a separate tab.  Thank goodness for that, else I would have been further up a creek in the troubleshooting process.

And I had good friends to help keep my mind off of the my world is going to end! attitude last night, with great company, conversation and food.  By the time dinner was over, I was much more relaxed about it all, and not so panicked.

I also called a good friend who is a real WordPress maven, Charlene Jaszewski. She helped me with her calm approach and willingness to listen, and held my hand over the phone while I – correctly, thank goodness! – manipulated this pesky file.  She even figured out how to do what I was trying to do!  Thank you Charlene!  If anyone reading this needs WordPress consulting or an excellent content strategist, please contact her.

So, I learned a lot this weekend, both about the value of backups and good friends.  I am fortunate to have them.  Both!

And if you’ve ever done anything like what I did, please feel free to share in the comments!  🙂