Your homepage is currently set to display your latest blog posts.
Do you have any blog posts published? If not, then what you’re seeing is normal.
You need to either:
1) Published at least one POST so it/they will be displayed on the homepage, OR
2) Configure your site to display one of your existing PAGEs as your homepage. Go to SETTINGS => READING => “Your homepage displays” => “A static page” and use the drop-down menu to select the page whose content you want to have displayed on the homepage.
Thread Starter
onleme
(@onleme)
Hi George, where are you talking about to change the settings, there are no tabs o buttons or links on the page to do anything and no admin panel etc, just this page.
Probably haven’t explained enough sorry. I was bulk editing users in a plugin I think called wp-sheets and accidently deleted something then I got kicked out of the website. both my admin usernames as well as about 60 users were deleted. When I reloaded the web site the page it shows the above as the home page, you can see yourself by the link, and I could not log back in as I had been deleted. I found an article about creating an admin in cpanel, https://paramounttechnetwork.com/how-to-create-an-admin-user-to-the-wordpress-database-via-cpanel/ so created the user Fixer. Maybe I still dont have admin rights with this user??
Website has been running since 2019 and never had this happen before
I do not have any blog posts
I cant post anything as there is nowhere to post it
cheers
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This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by
onleme.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by onleme.
Thanks for the update. But that’s a whole different ball game than your earlier question.
The challenge here is that, reading your post, it seems you don’t know exactly what you deleted. I say this because deleting site users alone should not cause all your site content to disappear from the front end.
So it seems you lost more than the site users, which could account for why manually creating a new admin account didn’t work for you.
So your best bet is to restore a backup of your site. If you don’t maintain backups yourself, please get in touch with your host: backup of customer data is such a basic thing that any provider calling themselves a “WordPress host” should be doing, and your host should be able to restore your site for you.
If you absolutely have no backup at all…
The site content is stored in the MySQL database, in the [prefix]_posts table, which you can access with phpMyAdmin. But as I don’t know what data got deleted, I can’t say if your content is there in the database or not.
An absolute last resort would be to use Archive.org’s WayBackMachine to see if they archived your site so you can copy-and-paste the text of individual pages and rebuild the site.
And if you have to go that last route, then also please consider a) Switching to a host that backups up your site automatically, and b) Installing a WordPress plugin to automatically backup your site to a free Gmail/Dropbox account as a second layer of protection.
Good luck!
Thread Starter
onleme
(@onleme)
Thanks George
Yeah I was a bit vague, apologies, I was a bit stressed out.
Thanks for the advise, I have contacted the host company so will see how we go.
The website does backups fortnightly via Updraft but I can’t get into the site to restore a backup, unless you know a way to do it.
Cheers
Steve
