You know that awful thing you hope never happens when you’re making changes on your website?

It happened to me this morning.

I was working on my site, updating plugins, making changes in multiple places, checking the configuration for some obscure setting that took me down a rabbit hole.

When suddenly, when I review my site, it’s not displaying the way it should.

Some update I made caused a problem with search disappearing.

The blog page was empty, there were no posts.

Uh oh. Continue reading Recovering and Restoring a Website: Planning Makes a Difference