When I first started using WordPress, it was a fiasco involving downloading it from WordPress, then uploading it to a host via an ftp client, setting it up and setting up a sql database, including the encryption keys, and editing an adnmin file, then getting going on it. Now, with BlueHost, a person can have it installed in a moment right from the BlueHost servers, including managing the databases. It takes nothing at all, and is much faster than the hour spent on the old installations.
Then there is the time a person gets the bright idea to move to a new hosting service, and what do you know? The DNS is pointing to the new host before a person has finished opening up all of the WordPress installations at the old host, and getting the backups from them. How does a person get their computer to point to an old place where there is no longer a domain name for it, and open a page in situ with a browser, rather than by ftp? I got to learn all of that tonight, including editing a system file on my computer, and then working through five different suppoort agents at the host I am leaving, because they are having technical difficulties and keep getting cut off, so each new agent has to read what has already been done.
The problem was, when I did the edit on the system file, and they helped me find the information I needed to edit in to open a different website than the one the DNS is pointing to, I could get everything to download from every installation of WordPress I had on the host, except for one. And that one? It was the journal kept from birth of my twelve year old daughter.
When bedtime for the kids rolled around, I told my twelve year old daughter what was wrong, and you guessed it, she was none too excited about it at all.
I worked on it with the various agents and with the tools I had, and the advice they could give me, and the settings they could change for four hours in total. I even had one agent manage to get me to where I could see the journal on a proxy server, and I opened that on my tablet and took screen shots hoping we could retype the whole journal as a last ditch effort to save it.
One agent finally gave me a new IP address to edit into the hosts file in Windows system, and then got cut off from the chat just after I told her it didn’t work. Then I realized that the file had not saved because for some reason I was no longer in the text editor as an administrator, so I sorted that out, tried again, and son-of-a-bitch! It worked!
Sraight in, got the download, put it into the new journal, launched it, and golly, I hope my dear daughter knows how much I love her! I may also love some IT people just about as much! I wish the chat did not get cut off so I could say the most profond Thank You to someone called Amitha. Amitha made it happen! Kiry, I was ready to go all night if I had to! Luckily I didn’t have to, but I had no plans to stop baby girl, till it was done.
Admittedly, the pictures are not included, but I managed to get those in the ftp download I did the other day, so we should be fine and able to upload them later. But the text is there. All of it! All as it was originally written. The pictures should be easy to include. The site has a new design. I think you will like it baby girl. It is more mature, just like you.
Right, it is just after midnight, and I need to relax then get to sleep. I think I will sleep till 8:30 tomorrow. I have earned it.