Blog nightmare

I posted about this last night, but I have received no replies so far. I want to make a more clear post about what happened in sequential order. It’s sort of a worst nightmare scenario for anyone’s blog and I am really taken aback, wondering what could have possibly happened…

Last night I was editing one of my first blog posts that I had posted about three hours before and all of a sudden, I got a message saying something along the lines of “This post does not exist. Perhaps it was deleted?” For the next several minutes, I kept refreshing my page, and sometimes my blog posts would show up, and sometimes there would be nothing. Eventually, my blog went blank for good. When I logged into my Dashboard, the “Right now” section said I had four posts (which was correct) but when I clicked to edit them, it said “No posts found.”

Within the next couple hours, more content vanished from my site. One of my plugins called “About Me,” which displayed links to my social media profiles, stopped showing icon links and just showed text. Eventually, it disappeared altogether. And then my pages disappeared. All that was left on my blog was my header, sidebar and footer.

I started to think perhaps sometime hacked into my site and was deleting content. I don’t know how this could have possibly happened, but I went and changed my password late last night.

I went to bed hoping this was some bizarre WordPress glitch and my content would be back. But this morning it looks exactly like it did when I went to bed last night.

I do not have backups of my blogs posts or any of my pages, and I have been working on these meticulously the last few weeks since I launched this blog.

I really cannot believe this…

I guess I could recreate everything, but could this happen again? What could possibly have caused this?