I messed up, thats what happened. Here is a lesson in blog maintenance. A few weeks ago in my infinite wisdom I decided to oupgrade the site to a newer version of WordPress. After the upgrade I wasn’t able to login. What a pain (the problem was caused by me). Anyhow, since I was in a hurry, I re-installed WordPress (complete new installation) and that killed the link to the old database. Long story short, since I gave the new database a new name (so I have the old posts) all of the content is in the old database and I have to transfer it to the new one.

Here are the lessons;

1. Backup, Backup, Backup – install a WordPress backup plugin and use it regularly. Otherwise you could lose all of your data
2. Do change the way stuff was done in the past. Normally I do all of my upgrades using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, this last time I didn’t and that hurt.
3. Search to see if there are issues with an upgrade BEFORE you upgrade. Didn’t do that and in hind sight there was an issue. Had I searched for problems first I could have put off doing the upgrade.

Thats it for now, but boy what a lesson. Even an experienced web guy has issues sometimes mostly by taking stuff for granted. Learn from my mistakes