I learnt two big lessons recently on things related to wordpress:

When hosting a blog on wordpress.com, or any free blog host for that matter, read the TOS first. And don’t even think about breaking them. My piece of advice for everybody else is: don’t host your moneymaking blog at free web/bloghosts. The hammer can fall anytime. In my case, to make matters worse, I didn’t have any backup. But still I had plan C: I managed to salvage most, if not all, of my posts via google cache.

If you have your own hosting, and are running wordpress, be VERY careful with the General Options - Wordpress Address and Blog Address settings. Read the documentation thoroughly before attempting to change any settings there. In fact, I think there should be a big red sentence there to warn unsuspecting wordpress newbies about this. What happened to me: I changed both settings, found they didnt work, and put back the original settings. It didn’t work. My blog lost all its formatting and I could not access the configuration panel. I followed the steps outlined in wordpress codex on how to use myphpadmin to manually change 2 fields (whose entry needs to be changed to the original blog URL) in the wp_options table, but somehow there was an error. So what I did was export the wp_options, change the 2 fields offline then import the table. Of course this time I remembered to back up the existing wp_options table first.

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