Of the week I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Cookography to Wordpress 2.7. I have never really had trouble with upgrade, so I didn’t bother to do any sort of backup.
Unfortunately when I finished the upgrade, all I got was a blank screen. Not a good sign. I figured I had uploaded something incorrectly so I did a full upgrade, deleting all of the old files first. Still nothing. Then I figured it was something whacky with my FTP program. I was using the free CyberDuck program for the Mac. I hadn’t tried upgrading on a Mac before, so I figured the FTP was doing something weird. Anyhow I registered my copy of Transmit, which is supposed to be a better program. When I uploaded Transmit asked me if I wanted to Overwrite the directories. I click yes, because I wanted to add the new stuff to the website. However overwrite meant completely removing all the custom content I had like themes. Anyhow after what was pretty much a clean install I was still getting a blank page.
Finally after googling around, I found this webpage . Turns out I had an extract line at the end of my config file. UGH! After fixing that, everything worked fine… minus the content I had customized. Luckily I had done a back up sort of recently. Still lesson learned. BACKUP!