Aargh! Technical problems
- rosemary
- May 29
- 3 min read
Updated: May 31
"Technology…is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." C.P. Snow

I sat down to write today's blog, found that the counter had been discontinued, and had to change it. So I did and suddenly all the 'real' content on my home page disappeared. All the 'content' has gone. All that remains is the background photo and a header. No content telling you what the site is about. Aargh!
Mind you when I just went to it on Google there it was all OK. ???

It should look like this - well there's more below, but anyway - there is information, quotes, pictures. It's a Home Page.
Now I do know that you, my small but loyal group of readers probably don't care too much, because I'm pretty sure you never go to the Home page, and just go straight to the day's blog. I also know that virtually nobody else ever looks at my Home page, so it doesn't really matter, but it really bugs me.
Now maybe if I somehow navigated Wix's complicated customer support system I could probably get them to restore it - well then again maybe not. So shall have to fix it myself. Which is both a good thing and a bad thing.
It's a good thing because it's brain exercise - indeed as I am writing this half of my brain is trying to work out what happened. And - a pat on the back to me - I've worked out why the online Home page is still there. I have not republished what confronts me in edit mode. And I won't, until I've fixed it. Maybe if I hit enough control/Z buttons I shall eventually to get back to how it was. I can certainly play around trying to restore it to how it was, as long as I don't tell Wix to publish my meddlings. Indeed in a way I could just leave it like that forever without republishing. But it bugs me. I hate things that are wrong, even if nobody but me sees them.
But I don't want to bore you with the technical problems. My real problem is that the template that I originally used has been deleted by Wix, and so I can't just restart with that - although again - small pat on the back - I just did a screen dump of what it should look like, so now all I have to do is copy it. And indeed if I just restarted with the original template I would mess everything up. So no - I think it's just a copy and paste exercise.
Problem solved I guess. But very, very annoying.
Stupid I know but I couldn't think of anything foodie whilst this was going on. I just had to vent. And do I dare try again with their new counter? Not sure about that one.
YEARS GONE BY
May 29
2024 - Poutine - trendy junk food
2021 - Sweetly appetising dates
2020 - Deleted
2017 - Nothing
Well done for taking on the powers of the internet and coming through alive!
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