What sort of customizations did you have? Ex. Custom CSS?

I’m wondering if you might be able to check the backup files from 2 days ago and just pull in the custom CSS if that’s the case. If you’re comfortable with access your database via phpMyAdmin, you could also go through your wp-options table, compare that with your backup and update accordingly.

My concern now is my fear of using WooCommerce. Fortunately my site is still under construction. But if this happens after the site goes live, it will be a disaster. Is there anything I can do to wall off the site customizations from Woo?

Thank you,
Jim

I can certainly understand your trepidation! Typically, the custom CSS under “Appearance” should not be wiped out by an update, so I’m not certain why that happened this time.

The best advice moving forward is to always have a full backup that you create immediately before running any updates to WordPress, WooCommerce, or any plugins.

Another option is to use a separate plugin like this one to add your custom CSS.

That’s what I had done, but some of my customizations are in various settings or directly in the PHP, so there’s no easy way to back up and restore them. Nonetheless, I saved my CSS and took a bunch of screen shots before reinstalling Woo. So far, so good.

Thanks again,
Jim