At the least the plain white bloggy-background is gone.
It’s not perfect by any means, but at least the site is starting to get back to its 1.0 look and feel… hello look and feel from 2008 all over again. Note to self, don’t try the auto updating features in WordPress for a while. Give it a rest so I don’t accidently corrupt my WP themes again. I first whacked my site when I had finally upgraded my CMS after ignoring WP updates for six months. I finally gave in to updating mostly to take advantage of this new auto-update feature in WordPress. Plus, the included support for PHP’s child themes for the CSS framework also made this a compelling upgrade. However, that also meant I needed to collect my original changes to the Comicpress style.css and create a new child style.css of the later ComicPress theme. Much easier said than done and also something that I didn’t do before hand.
After manually updating WordPress to the latest version, what do you know; my dashboard is now telling me there is an even newer update. Excellent, I can try out the auto-updating feature and forget about ftp’ing, ssh’ing, decompressing tarballs ever again…how long could the auto update feature take? A couple of minutes… an hour at the most? Then I can advance to the CMS tasks at hand. Let me just hit the update button, sit back, and take in all of the glory of next-gen Web CMS management and think about actual content updates for a change. My mind was free to drive the Podscape universe forward with new stories, new characters and old ones waiting in the wings for their turn in their four panels of their reality. Just have to wait a few more minutes for the auto update to finish.
A day later, I was still faced with a website of complete blankness. Even trying to get into the admin tool was only bringing up the blankest of all blankest web pages. Thankfully at the time, my test environment was identical to my production site on the data side, so I was easily able to upgrade the source files again and try to overwrite any corrupted files. But that only brought me to the most of default blog themes. A header, footer, and my text, never had I felt so exposed in the web before.