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Well if you guys missed it, on Wednesday we lost the whole site and I had to do the gallery all over and luckily had a wordpress backup so we only lost a few days worth of news.

I’m finally done fixing up the site.  I had to re-categorize about 550 news articles because they lost their category for some reason.

So yayyy for being fully functional again!

YAY!! I re-added my photos from the Half-Blood Prince premiere, you can see them here in the gallery!  I am so sad that all of the hit counts in the gallery are gone! Everything had like hundreds of  views 🙁

Now I just need to finish fixing up the categories and I’m done.

Okay, the site is almost all fixed!  I just need to do a few more things.  If you notice anything going screwy please let me know by commenting! Not sure if the email is working right now.

My list:

• re-categorize news
• fix category images
• re-upload my NYC Premiere photos

And thank you to everyone for understanding!! <3 you all!  I am taking a well deserved break to shower and then go watch Star Trek on one of the lawns at my school.  Been at my computer fixing the site without eating or leaving since 4:40pm, it is now 8pm…haha

Hey guys…some bad news today…I’ll just copy part of the email I received since I can’t really think straight right now.

Last night one of our servers “stars” was hacked. I was able to take back control of the server and verify the backups were present and last updated Aug. 27 and then ordered a server re-image. Then disaster struck…

I don’t how how to put this without everyone freaking out, as I am right now, but when my hosting company remounted the backup drive so I could start the restores, they accidentally wiped the drive and all the backups were lost. If I could express how sorry I am, I would, but my sincerity couldn’t possibly come out in a message board post.

All sites will have to be recreated.

Luckily I have a backup of WordPress from a few days ago, but I have to do the gallery ALL OVER…so that might take a bit to fix. I will also need to make sure no news is missing and all the pages are up to date.

I am SO sorry about this guys! I am totally freaking out right now and almost crying.

UPDATE: Okay so most of the news is back, here is my to-do list, I will cross things off as I do them. I have bolded the most important, but those will probably take the most time.:

• Fix Sidebar
• Make sure all Elite/Top Affies are re-added
• Fix Top Navigation
• MAKE THE PAGES WORK
• Re-categorize all the news
• Add news from Aug 29-today
• Totally Re-upload everything in the gallery/organize it better
• Fix Category Pictures

IF YOU NOTICE SOMETHING IS WRONG TELL ME SO I CAN ADD IT TO THE LIST!!!! THANKS!

Hey guys! I’m trying to fix the site categories so if something goes a little wonky on the site don’t worry! It will all be okay, haha!

Hopefully I can get it to work, I have someone helping me.

UPDATE: YAY!!! Thanks to Kelly for helping me we now have categories all working again!!