Broke-Ass Student

Last month I realized I should probably upgrade my site to the newest version of WordPress since two years and zero upgrades definitely screamed for attention.  But I’m a complete techie newb and the thought of CHMODs or SQL gives me heart palpitations.

One snowy afternoon (was I drunk?), I mustered up courage and decided to have at it. Into the guts I went, only it didn’t go as smooth as I envisioned. Oops, there goes my login.

I was missing files, they were stubbornly refusing to upload and the site was hosed.

I pleaded my case to the WordPress Support Forum but they seemed just as puzzled. I then turned to my web hosting for answers.  After literally weeks of being locked out of my site and the WordPress Admin panel, I can finally access everything again this morning thanks to Kacy C. of Dreamhost. (The culprit was file permission errors.) Broke-Ass Student is once again alive and kicking. Thanks Kacy!!

Lessons learned:

When WordPress Support can’t offer a cure, try your web host. And upgrading is not as difficult as I feared, it just becomes really freaking tedious when not keeping on top of updates from one version to the next.

Happy New Years, everyone!

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