And... I killed my blog.

The template for this blog is really old. So old that it's starting to break with the newer versions of WordPress. Comments haven't worked properly in over two years. Commenter name and contact information is no longer stored and the comment field is wider than the blog container. Not that it's a tragedy since I don't get many comments now-a-days, but still... it annoys me.

And so last night* I set out to see if I could fix it.

Idiot that I am, I didn't backup my old templates. Nor did I write down the old settings I had. Instead I just plowed forward and made tweaks that I thought would make things work a bit better.

Nope!

Screwed everything up. Couldn't even log in.

Long story short... I had to download my blog archive, extract the template code, rebuild WordPress, rebuild my custom templates (faults and all), then re-link the database so my entries could be found again.

Time to complete? THREE DAYS!

I am writing this on Thursday, January 30th after having finally getting everything working again this morning before I headed into work.

What I would like to do is purchase a spiffy new "Gutenberg-Ready" template and modify it so that it looks like my blog. Then I could do all kinds of cool stuff that the new WordPress editor allows me to do. Problem is that I don't have time. I'd hire somebody to do it for me, but I have even less money than time. And so... I guess I should just be grateful that Blogography keeps on running at all.

Until WordPress releases an update that breaks my blog completely. Which is any day now, I'm sure.

   
*The word "yesterday" being relative, in this case.