What Happened to My Website?

  • I am new to all of this, so please excuse my ignorance and/or dumb questions.

    After installing WordPress onto my laptop, I began to follow a step-by-step tutorial which I found on YouTube, regarding how to set up a website, using the Shopkeeper theme, as well as the WooCommerce plugin. Everything seemed to be going well, and I was pleased with what I saw.

    However, yesterday, when I signed on, in order to continue working on it, the website appeared to boot up, as before, showing my logo, website name, but the pages which I had made were gone, and, in their place, were other pages…thirty-nine of them! I had, up to that point, only managed to make about three pages. And many of the thirty-nine new pages showed that they had been made as long ago as February; however, I installed WordPress and began working on the website only in June.

    Does anyone have an idea as to what could have happened to cause this? Being a newbie, I have only guesses, such as these:

    1. I am now logging on under someone else’s name which is close to mine.
    2. I somehow saved the site incorrectly, thus losing the pages which I had designed, and the 35 pages which I am now seeing are actually ‘dummy’ pages that are just a part of the WooCommerce plugin or the Shopkeeper theme. (I actually think this is the most probable thing that happened)
    3. My host has somehow messed up my account, and now I’m logging onto somebody else’s account, causing my pages to disappear and the 35 new pages to appear.

    Any ideas? I’m now afraid to waste more hours of time, only to have it happen again.

    And a second question, if I may: If I can be pretty sure that it will not happened again, I would just like to start afresh, since I had done only three or four pages. How does one go about that? Do I just delete all pages, and start over or what?

    All ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by rayzen1.
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  • After installing WordPress onto my laptop

    My host has somehow messed up my account

    Are you working in localhost or on a live website?

    Yes, you can always delete pages. They will stay in the trash until you empty it.

    Moderator t-p

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    in their place, were other pages…thirty-nine of them!

    Do you recognize any one of them?

    Where these “thirty-nine” created by you?

    Thread Starter rayzen1

    (@rayzen1)

    Hi, thanks for your time and help.

    No, as stated, I had only created about four or five pages, all of which had disappeared. I had not created any of the new ones. As I said in one of my guesses as to what might have happened, perhaps the new pages are just ‘dummy’ pages that are really a part of either the WooCommerce plugin or the Shopkeeper theme; however, being a newbie to all of this, I don’t know how to determine if that’s true or not.

    Thread Starter rayzen1

    (@rayzen1)

    Hi Kjodle. Thank you for your time and effort, in helping me.

    Well, being a newbie, I’m not sure just where I’m working, sad to say. While developing the four or five pages that I had done, I was actually wondering if they were somehow going out onto the internet, hoping all the while that they were not. I’m still not sure just how to work on the website, without actually making it appear on the internet. Is there a way to save my work, without actually publishing in ‘out there’ in cyberspace?

    I’m not sure just where I’m working

    If you are working in localhost, your URL will generally be either https://localhost/wordpress or https://127.0.0.1/wordpress (where ‘wordpress’ is the name of your wordpress install; if you installed it in your root, it won’t be there).

    If you are working on a live website, your URL will be an actuall address: https://www.example.com

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