Early Morning Disaster!!!

OK first thing I have to say... do not attempt this at home!

Very early this morning, I had the brilliant idea to "switch" my blog and websites domains, meaning that I thought that my website's url was better suited for my blog and viceversa.

I'm sure (now) that it was SO early that my neurons were still sleeping, some of them are still (I'm sure) on Spring Break.

Anyway, I go to my hosting account and start making the changes to the databases just like the guy from customer support explained to me yesterday.

I also open the wordpress.org help section where it says "moving blog from one domain to another"

According to the help section at wordpress.org, the last step was "That's it!" I was SO happy and proud that I could do this myself, and that I had proved the guy wrong when he told me, "it is a rather complicated procedure..."

Then I go on to check on my website and blog in their respective new places....

Ohhhhhhh, noooooooo!

Blank! Everything was blank! You know what blank is right? Just WHITE EMPTY SPACE!

Then I remembered, "oh, it's just that I need to go to my domain control and change the nameservers..."

After I did that, I went back again and checked... INTERESTING!!! My blog posts were showing in the wrong domain but with the right blog name and trackback urls...and they were just floating in a white sea of plain html file...

How cute!

I'm missing my neurons and growing a headache by then, I try to restore my database... or whatever, it didn't work either, I installed a new blog, I couldn't find my old posts.

In the end I found a way (don't ask me how, I DON'T KNOW how it happened!) to make it through the admin page of the old blog and I could export the blog.

I had to create a new blog, and import the old blog. It's there now (www.home-4-wealth.com) I still have some editing to do since it didn't import exactly like it was before, but at least I didn't lose a year + of work.

Lesson learned: Forget what your web host tells you, everything you need to know and do is in your blog's platform... instructions, plugins, everything! Go there first if that doesn't work, THEN ask help from your hosting company.

PS I'm still waiting for my other domain to work, but it will... Update: It took from 10am this morning to 8pm for my other site to go back to normal... but it is up! (www.MariangiesBiz.com)