seeingdesign

nah didnt mod those two. modified “simplex” theme. didnt use child though. guess i will need to learn how to do that next. thanks again.

worked, thanks so much ESMI. i still lost all the custom work i did on the blog to date, do you know how i can restore that stuff (from a full back up i have from a few weeks ago) without messing up the 3.3.1 upgrade, etc?

are you able to click on a post? i get a “500 internal server error” when i click on the rent our apartment one for example

https://seeingdesign.com/etc/want-our-apartment is where that link takes me.

second part of my reply, i am trying to get back to the look my site had two days ago before WP screwed up my site (or maybe it was my fault, either way i never saw any warning messages, and i did back up before i upgraded, so i can show you what it used to look like before 3.3.1 came along)

esmi, thanks for the quick reply.

– deactivate all plugins, yes i did this previously, did not help.
– switching to TwentyEleven theme, yes did this as well. Site is a bit more normal, however all links still 500 error.
– resetting the plugins folder (did this, didnt fix 500 errors in either theme (my site has been on simpleX 2.0.1.1 for years now, and that is where all my customization work has been done)
– re-uploading wp-admin and wp-includes, did that, no change.

+ idea: might this have something to do with child and parent themes, where updates dont screw up my whole site? I had to something similar with another site i run https://HoneyTrek.com also on wordpress, but that is through Platform Pro, i didnt think i needed to do that with normal wordpress install. thoughts there?

any other ideas?

So i found a copy that was from June 30th. I took the entire simplex theme folder, and replaced all files. however many things didnt come through.

– nav still busted
– no background image in header, although logo shows now
– everything is centered

might i need to change files that are NOT in this folder.
“\seeingdesign\wp-content\themes\simplex”

thanks for your help Peredur. life saver!

how do i create a child theme?
and if i can find a back up of my files, can i just drop them into my FTP directory? will that mess up the theme?

I do not know what a child theme is. And I might have a very old copy of my changes. crap, would this thing overwrite all my code. i never knew that, and there was no message to that effect. damn.

this is what my site used to look like:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110423195610/https://seeingdesign.com/

thanks so much for trying, yeah my blog was 100% dialed in for about 2 years. and as of yesterday it was perfect, as of today, totally f*cked. was their an update that came through yesterday? would that have erased all the code i have written?

in addition, all my formatting is wrong, links to read more are gone, all sorts of custom work i did to the blog has been erased. PLEASE HELP.

URGENT ??