After four years, I have my blog back. Yay me. I have the text and the content, but there is nothing like hosting your own and customizing it. And I had done much customization. Not just the background and pictures, but Google fonts, CSS changes, PHP changes, customization of the theme, just all kinds of things.
Then the lady hosting it closed her site in 2017. I could have migrated my site at that time, but I don’t check that email address very often. And when I went to make an update, it was gone. I still had her email address, and lucky for me, she had backed it up. She sent me the back up database. Unfortunately, that’s just the posts, pages and comments. All of my customization was gone. Honestly, I can rebuild that, and it was time to; I hadn’t changed the theme in 8 yrs. Right now, I’m just happy all of my content was saved. There are many things here that I have nowhere else.
If I have my own domain and hosting, what am I doing here, you ask? Well, it turns out my host doesn’t support the latest version of WordPress. Something to do with a PHP package extension, or some such. I’m going to open a ticket with my host and see if I can get it resolved. But, until then, here I am.
Glad to be back.