Blogging Mistakes; What Were Yours?
Success don't come overnight...
At one time or the other, we all must have made some mistakes in life which we “hopefully” must have learned from. But how about blogging? As it is, blogging to bloggers, is part of their lives and for sure, there have been mistakes made along the way. On my own end, I have made countless number of mistakes which sometimes I’m unconscious of.
I will begin by outlining one recent mistake I made while I was trying to move my whole blog pages from a sub directory to my root directory. It all started when I decided it was time to give my blog a facelift. I knew the whole idea about backing up my stuffs, but at some point, it all went awry and I couldn’t figure out what the problem was.
I was successful moving my backed up blog to my root directory, but it won’t just connect to my DB. I did all the troubleshooting I could to make everything work with my existing DB, but it all failed. At the end, guess what I did; I ended up deleting my whole database. I created a new DB and everything worked fine. I know I must have made some mistakes in the process of moving and backing up, but I didn’t know what I actually did wrong.
So what were my mistakes? My mistakes happen to be double edged. I’m unsure of what I did wrong– first edge and I failed to look for the right documentation to help fix this issue– second edge. While this issue lasted, I lost my DB, lost my pages and had to start all over again. My lessons? Patience works best when troubleshooting. I have learned that when I’m faced with issues like this, I need to be calm and seek the necessary help I could get.
So what were your mistakes? Have you got any mistake to share? If yes; what did you learn from it?
JD 
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