So basically I recently updated some themes and plug-ins on the WordPress website of an organization I’m interning at, and it messed up the website’s dropdown menu. So I decided to just restore the UpdraftPlus backup of the site from a week before and start over with it so that I could single out which plugins or plugins were messing up the formatting. But I stupidly went ahead and clicked the option to restore everything, including the database and all of the website’s uploads (of which there are over 1 GB), and I guess it must have timed out while it was processing the uploads, because I got a message in the log saying there was a “critical error on this website.”
And now a number of images on the website aren’t loading, and when I go to our image library, I just see a ton of gray squares and no actual images. Plus some of the links to PDFs on our website aren’t working now either.
So I don’t know what to do. And I’m not really sure what happened. Basically I guess something got snarled up in the restoration process when it timed out, and it’s resulted in a lot of our media files not loading now. Has anyone else dealt with this before? Should I maybe just try restoring all the uploads again, just by themselves? Sorry this is so rambly, I just feel awful that I messed up their site. No one at the organization has wanted to touch the website for years, so I thought I’d try my hand at cleaning it up a bit, but clearly some of this stuff is just over my head. I just really need help.
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