Rebuilding my blog
Starting over, but not from scratch
I had a huge problem with Wordpress and themes. A theme malfunctioned, corrupted my databases, and after spending a couple hundred dollars on Upwork, it continued to fail me.
It was not the problem of the people at Upwork. They were fabulous. They fixed the first problem I was having, and then several days later, a new problem cropped up. They fixed it, and then a couple of weeks later, and fatal problem occured.
At that point, I just gave up. Mainly because I learned about Quarto, and its integration with R. I use R for research, and knowing that I can write in R, using Quarto to publish the site and blog, means that I can control everything, write in HTML, CSS, and, most importantly YAML and Markdown.
A HUGE sigh of relief. Now I control everything, how it works, how it links, and all the things. Even more importantly, I understand how it works, where with Wordpress, I just trusted the software.
Huge sigh of relief.
Now, since my blog was essentially ruined, I have backups that I need to rebuild here. I can’t just copy and paste, because everything is in pieces. But I will start picking and choosing, and rebuild the important posts first.
Onward!