blog suddenly reverted back by a year and a half

  • pixxybug

    (@pixxybug)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve been quite busy and not touched/visited by blog for about a month and a half, and I discovered today that sometime during this period I lost about 18 months on my blog! Can anyone please help?

    My blog is at http://staticimage.net
    (Also, I stupidly don’t have a viable backup that I can find right now).

    Basically I tried to log into wordpress and thought it was strange that my password didn’t work, so I tired the password I had prior, and that worked. Then I realised that everything that has happened since June 2013 has been erased. How did this happen and how can I fix it?

    The only thing I can think of that has changed in the past month or so is that I received an email about WP automatically updating, that’s all.

    Thanks.

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    everything that has happened since June 2013 has been erased. How did this happen

    Had you done anything significant back then that would have left a previous database behind? Or, maybe check with your host to see whether some kind of server change or move has been made and you somehow ended up with an old backup.

    Thread Starter pixxybug

    (@pixxybug)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Nope, I haven’t done anything at all. Also I’ve been super busy and not even touched the site, so I’m not sure when exactly this happened either. Sometime in the past month and a half or so.

    I’m awaiting my host’s reply. Could an auto WP update have caused this?

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Could an auto WP update have caused this?

    WP updates do occasionally update the version number of a database like you can read about here…
    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/41-database-upgrade-problem?replies=5#post-6350623
    …but you will need a database expert to answer as to whether anything like that could cause a database to revert to a previous rendering or even whether reverting to a previous rendering is even possible at all without an older backup copy first coming into play.

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