{"id":186,"date":"2014-03-22T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T08:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wordpress-cutline-archives-and-backup\/"},"modified":"2017-04-28T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T02:41:04","slug":"wordpress-cutline-archives-and-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wordpress-cutline-archives-and-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress, Cutline, Archives and Backup!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are time online when you are not just a marketer but you become a tech-head too. Yesterday I mucked up my blog.<\/p>\n

I had been using the Cutline theme by maestro Chris Pearson. It\u2019s an older theme but I like it\u2019s visual simplicity. I noticed in the Cutline Options sub-menu that you could create an Archives page easily.<\/p>\n

I clicked the “enable archives page” in Cutline Options. Then I set up the archive page in the Pages submenu. Voila \u2026 I had an archives page.<\/p>\n

Whoa!! Wait a minute. Now the Archives page is my default first page and I can’t figure out how to change it.\u00a0 I failed to notice the little extra text underneath the \u2018enable\u2019 button that said this would make the Archives page my First Page. So no matter what I did, the Archives page hijacked my site and I couldn\u2019t get my site to show my posts as it did normally.<\/p>\n

I unchecked the option, checked the WP Settings, reinstalled the theme, reinstalled wordpress and looked through the database and searched high and low for an answer on forums and the internet.<\/p>\n

My first clue – even if I changed theme it still hijacked the first page as archives so the problem was no longer just theme related.<\/p>\n

My second clue\u00a0 even overwriting the wordpress files did not resolve the problem so it wasn\u2019t a wordpress issue.<\/p>\n

Final clue \u2013 by deduction, the problem had to be in the database.<\/p>\n

Ever tried looking for how to restore MySql? Lots of technical jargon and complicated and outdated instructions. Then, by chance I fell on this : http:\/\/www.tamba2.org.uk\/wordpress\/restore\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Really clear and fool-proof simple instructions for the layperson on how to restore a backup.<\/p>\n

Lessons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Always read all the detail before you change anything on your site<\/li>\n
  2. Make sure you back up regularly. I use WP Database Backup which posts a backup to me. I just had to grab a version (from before I\u2019d made the fatal change) to restore.<\/li>\n
  3. Use WP\u2019s Tools\/Export feature to make doubly sure you have a copy of your site structure \u2013 posts, categories, tags etc<\/li>\n
  4. Grab a copy of your latest posts and any modifications you want to reproduce that were done after the last Backup to now<\/li>\n
  5. Follow tamba2\u2019s easy method for deleting your corrupted database and restoring an earlier one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In the end I had to re-enter the latest posts I\u2019d created and only lost a sidebar text content which I can easily reproduce so no big issue…. except for the 12 hours I lost trying to find a fix!! Next time I’ll get my web guru on the case so I can focus on more productive outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are time online when you are not just a marketer but you become a tech-head too. Yesterday I mucked up my blog. I had been using the Cutline theme by maestro Chris Pearson. It\u2019s an older theme but I like it\u2019s visual simplicity. I noticed in the Cutline Options sub-menu that you could create… Read More »WordPress, Cutline, Archives and Backup!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,3],"tags":[53,52,413,54],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-wordpress","tag-archives","tag-cutline","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-database-backup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-30","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}