Guess what happens when you cross a tech-UNsavvy person with, err, tech?! Yea, badly structured question, I know, but that is NOT the main point.
Being the stats-obsessed blogger that I was (note the past tense), I tried to install a statistics plugin that could do almost everything that “Blog Stat” in Wordpress.com could. And being very good at following instructions, I did the step-by-step installation according to the attached “Read Me” file. Including modifying the config.php file, which is a prohibited area, at least for people like me.
I clicked SAVE and happily thought that I could now spy on my readers monitor from which corner angle country did my readers come, who referred them here, which were the most-read posts etc.
Bad move.
My template started to act in a very strange way I cannot describe it now. I made more modifications but the more I modified, the more new problems I encountered. I combed through the WordPress website but found nothing that could help me. Maybe I wasn’t looking at the correct corners. Or maybe I didn’t know what I was looking for *sigh*
I left Master Jason some messages over Y! Messenger, and I also left him my username and password, hoping he could help me check my blog the moment he got online. Then I went to bed. But I tossed and turned in bed for so many times I thought maybe I should beep Master Jason to see if he could help me with it. He said he was away but he was willing to help me look into it. So sweet of him.
So this afternoon I met him in Y! Messenger and he asked me what I did to my blog. I forgot what I told him but it was something to the effect of “installing some plugin - erased the database - got a new set of username and password” and then I told him I edited the config.php file. And he was like, “OF ALL THINGS YOU GO TOUCH THAT” and I was like “OMG.”
Anyway, to cut a long story short, Master Jason helped me reset my WordPress database, hence I have officially lost my previous couple of posts AND COMMENTS. I am not so saddened over the lost of those little posts because I could re-write them if I wanted to. But those comments left by my readers, yes, you, are very precious to me :(( *sob*
And I have decided NOT to re-write those posts that I accidentally erased. Maybe they were meant to be erased anyway. Maybe that incident will serve as a reminder to me to NOT mess with files that I am not familiar with. I am lucky to have only lost 4 posts instead of 40 or 400 *shrugs*
A note to other tech-UNsavvy people like me: NEVER EVER edit anything in those .css or .php files if you do not know how they function. Sometimes the computers are too dumb to understand what we actually want.
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