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“Download the new version!” it shouted. And then one hour later my website was gone…
I lost one of my WordPress websites this morning when I upgraded it. My site www.1234codes.co.uk [now redirecting elsewhere] was beginning to appear on page one of some Google queries and as a result was receiving a share of new unique visitors each day. So I thought I’d update it for the first time since its February launch as most of the content was dated.
So after spending Saturday pruning the content and uploading a few new offers, my plan for Sunday was to find a new theme for it.
On my travels though, I saw that WordPress 2.2 (”The latest stable release”) was available to download. The upgrade pages couldn’t stress any more that you needed to ...