One of the problems with working 10 hour days (outside the home) is that when something glitches in my website, I usually don’t hear about it till after the fact. So when I came home yesterday evening, I discovered three different emails asking what happened to Decompose. I immediately went to the site and discovered a WordPress installation page. Furthermore, I was unable to access my Dashboard to do anything about it. After some help from the Bluehost folks, I’ve returned things to a semblance of normalcy.
The culprit? WordPress plugins are a possibility. These little buggers seem to have an annoying propensity to destabilize this site. Luckily, my post content (4 years worth!) was untouched. However, my header pages (Home, About, My Writing, Links, etc.) were all deleted and my WordPress sitename was changed to Eskimo. Huh? I’m currently hunting to see whether those pages can be retrieved, or if I’ll have to rewrite everything. Another possibility: a hacker. Why do I say that? Because I had, like, 30 comments from some creep named Mr. WordPress. So until I get a handle on this — or catch Mr. WordPress! — I’m kind of walking on eggshells.
Hey, wasn’t I just talking about the downside of technology?
I was wondering what happened. I’m assuming you already changed your password if said hacker phished your account so he can’t log back in?
Scary, Mike. I was hoping all was not lost.
I figured it had to be a glitch, a bad update that redirected your dashboard page to the reader’s side url or something. Becky Miller has Wordpress, and I could read that fine.
Anyway. Meep.
Scary stuff. I have wiped my site out several times and been afraid I wouldn’t be able to restore it. Not a pleasant feeling.
I just want you to know that just because I’ve been arguing with you and I lived in Alaska for twenty some years and my kids are Aleuts (cousins to the Eskimo) I’m not a tech person and have no idea how to hack a site. (heh heh, that Eskimo deal is too weird.)