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1. 4evrblu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://bluestravels.com

   I had the Travelogue 1.03 theme rocking along. It was totally validating and perfect.

   I uploaded a plugin for site statictics that came with Travelogue 2.0 and activated it and it gave me some screwy PHP error. I was unable to to deactivate it so I deleted it from my plugins folder.

   I went back to my admin panel and tried to go back to my travelogue theme and somehow it had reverted to the default travelogue 1.03 style, minus all of my customizations, head banners etc.

   I went into theme chooser and tried selecting the Default theme to see if I could clear the cache so to speak.

   I then clicked VIEW SITE to see if the default theme would load so that I could start over, and even though the AMDIN panel showed the Default theme in place, the old Travelogue 1.03 theme minus the fixes loads.

   Now, I was lucky enough to back up the blog a couple days ago, having only changed a few things in the style sheet.

   Can anyone tell me what is going on and what I can do about it?

2. 4evrblu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I would also like to add that all of my backups are in a format that is wierd.

   On my email server as attachments it is 128 K in size, but on my machine, once downloaded, it is only 4KB in size.

   Moreover, when I open it in text edit, the file only has this displayed in text edit:

   # WordPress MySQL database backup
   #
   # Generated: Friday 24. November 2006 07:13 MST
   # Hostname: mysql245.secureserver.net
   # Database: bluestravels
   # --------------------------------------------------------

   and thats it.

   Shouldnt there be more information in this?

3. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What happens if you get a real database dump through phpmyadmin?

4. 4evrblu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I would also like to add that all of my backups are in a format that is wierd.

   On my email server as attachments it is 128 K in size, but on my machine, once downloaded, it is only 4KB in size.

   Moreover, when I open it in text edit, the file only has this displayed in text edit:

   # WordPress MySQL database backup
   #
   # Generated: Friday 24. November 2006 07:13 MST
   # Hostname: mysql245.secureserver.net
   # Database: bluestravels
   # --------------------------------------------------------

   and thats it.

   Shouldnt there be more information in this?

5. 4evrblu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   OK, here is an update:

   What was happening with my sql backup file is that when I downloaded it using Safari, Safari dumped all of the data, reducing it from a 128KB file to 4KB; essentially an empty file.

   I decided to try using Firefox to access my Gmail (where the attachments are saved) and when Firefox downloaded it, it downloaded the entire 128 KB file without changing it. I expanded it and then re-imported it into my database manager in phpmyadmin and the import was successful. No data was lost, all data restored, including all corrections in the blog.

   Whew.

   This goes to show the imporance of regular , perhaps daily backups.

6. 4evrblu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   OK, I more or less restored the blog, but, I am back to the issue that boggled my mind over the weekend.

   Apparently, my most recent backup of the database was prior to me getting this blog theme cross-browser compliant. So, the same issues I had with Opera not displaying the sidebar in the proper position remains.

   http://bluestravels.com is the blog. CHeck it in Safari, and Firefops. It displays correctly.

   In Opera 9.02 it breaks down.

   It is a css issue and the sheet is here:

   http://www.bluestravels.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/travelogue1-0-3/style.css

   The sidebar parameters are listed in two places. Once towards the top and a few times towards the bottom. There seems to be some confict.

   Mind you, the footer was not clearing the sidebar, so I added clear:both to that, but when I add position:absolute to get the sidebar behaving correctly in Opera, the clear:both tag in footer breaks down and footer no longer clears the sidebar.

   Arrrgggg.

   There are some other issues with the links bar breaking in half, but I can tackle that later. Right now I would like some input on the sidebar and why Opera us unable to position it correctly.

   (Hint: somehow, when I use position:absolute, opera dn firefox define "top" differently, with firefox defining top as the bottom edge of the banner header images, whereas Opera defines top as 0x 0y from the top edge of the page. Hope this helps)

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