Not in IT, but the smallest monitors I have at this point are 20"widescreen. Office computer runs two of them. Laptop runs at 1920x1280.

At least once a month I remote into a site to fix a screen rotation problem. Usually someone clueless has hit the right combination of keys accidentally and doesn't know how to get out of it.

It's really strange remote connecting into a site that has a widescreen monitor at 90˚ or 260˚.

I wish our company wouldn't ship out systems with rotation hotkeys enabled.

It's really strange remote connecting into a site that has a widescreen monitor at 90˚ or 260˚.

Yeah, I love that -- it's some sort of NASA-style inverted, weightless, blindfolded exercise thinking "left is up and up is right" when moving the mouse around the screen (or do I have that backwards?).

Yelp not looking too good: [link]

I've never had a more important question than this one.

My primary site was set up in Wordpress. Last night, the person who has been helping me with it did something...I don't know what...and all the posts have disappeared.

Months and months of work.

I didn't have it backed up on disk for a variety of reasons I won't go into.

The question: Is there any form of archiving within Wordpress that I can access?

Please, somebody tell me there is a way to wake up from this nightmare.

eta: the site is bonnyking-taylordotcom

Bonny, there are some files from a year ago on the Wayback Machine, so you might be able to pick up some stuff you need.

It looks like you're hosted on DreamHost, which I use. DreamHost no longer supports file restore, but the odds are they keep backups for some amount of time. I'd start by throwing yourself on their mercy quickly.

Is there anything "bad" about a free WiFi site that inserts an ad bar at the top of each web page that you go to? Philosophically, it annoys the fuck out of me, and it takes up some of the limited screen space on my Aspire One. The cafe that has it is just scraping by financially, so I don't really want to complain to them....

Thanks Ginger. I found a few pages on the wayback machine. So, I've got that going for me.

And I sent a message to dreamhost offering cookies...the oatmeal kind.

I appreciate the tips.

Hey, did you get my resume comments? I had fun doing it.

Bonny -- Can you access the mySQL database to see if the posts are still there? It may be that your helper did something to mess up the Wordpress code but that the data is fine.

Thanks Jon. I've forwarded your suggestion along with the surprisingly rapid response from dreamhost...pasted below for anyone else who might ever need to restore a site...and have my fingers crossed.

Dreamhost said:

We always recommend that you keep your own backups as we don't guarantee that we'll have backups available.

That said we do try to keep snapshots of you sites for occasions like this. You'll find instructions on using them below.

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It looks a little complicated but take your time and you should be fine.