I am a total newbie so please excuse any wrong jargon. I have been having backups of my WP site emailed to me daily. I made a big mistake in header.php the other day and need to look at a previous version of the code to see what I inadvertently deleted. So I went to look at my backup and found am unable to read a sql file. What should I do? If I upload this backup'd file from the other day will it overwrite everything I've done in the past 3 days (which is a lot)? Or after uploading do I get to choose just the section I want to restore. Will it automatically rewrite all my header coding? And how do I get this emailed file back into my godaddy server anyway? I need help! Thanks.
Unfortunately the backup just backs up the database--which includes the content of your posts, categories, pages, comments, etc., but not the template files. So it can't help you with the template header.php file.
Thanks, anyway. I didn't know my backups weren't capturing all my template changes. Are there any ideas of how I can figure out what I wrecked in my coding? I asked another user of the theme to send me her code, but all that came through in the email were a bunch of blank spots where the php was supposed to be. I've also contacted a WP expert and hope she'll be able to figure out. Thanks again. Good-bye.
I am a total newbie so please excuse any wrong jargon. I have been having backups of my WP site emailed to me daily. I made a big mistake in header.php the other day and need to look at a previous version of the code to see what I inadvertently deleted. So I went to look at my backup and found am unable to read a sql file. What should I do? If I upload this backup'd file from the other day will it overwrite everything I've done in the past 3 days (which is a lot)? Or after uploading do I get to choose just the section I want to restore. Will it automatically rewrite all my header coding? And how do I get this emailed file back into my godaddy server anyway? I need help! Thanks.
laurkell,
Unfortunately the backup just backs up the database--which includes the content of your posts, categories, pages, comments, etc., but not the template files. So it can't help you with the template header.php file.
Thanks, anyway. I didn't know my backups weren't capturing all my template changes. Are there any ideas of how I can figure out what I wrecked in my coding? I asked another user of the theme to send me her code, but all that came through in the email were a bunch of blank spots where the php was supposed to be. I've also contacted a WP expert and hope she'll be able to figure out. Thanks again. Good-bye.
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