Changed WordPress URL – Fixed it – Posts Gone

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/260407?replies=15

I figured out how to fix my own problem using the post linked above. Turns out the instructions in Codex lacked a bit of important information for folks who were using different permalinks like myself. So, I decided to try this method, although the reason for this person’s missing posts was unreleated to mine, I figured it couldn’t hurt to try since I was already “broken”. I changed my permalinks back to default, hit refresh a few times, and my posts were all back and in working order. If anyone reading this is responsible for writing WordPress Codex instructions, you might want to add in this information for us newbies.

P.S. It should NOT be that easy to break functionality through the administration panel at all. At least a warning for those who entirely do not understand that changing the link in the WordPress URL will ultimately break the blog in a sense. Big red letters off to the right of the field stating “Warning: Changing the URL may result in breakage” or something very simple like that. It’d be very beneficial for folks like myself who learn through trial and error. I’d changed the Home URL without any incident and had the misconception that changing the WordPress URL would be beneficial to redirecting my blog back to my website’s main page when Home was hit. I was deeply wrong and know this now. But what a pain to go through, digging for the research on how to fix it, being told by my hosting service I must uninstall and reinstall, and then finding the Codex fix was only a partial one due to my use of permalinks prior to breakage. Shew… total mess.