Not that all my entries were mind blowing pieces of incredible work, dissertations on the state of the the world and the human condition told through the metaphor of the music creation, nor are there actually any people paying attention to this site, [especially given it's long-standing state of 'coming soon'ness] but crikey, it would be nice to not have lost those simple posts.
Step one: Dig around in your webhost’s cPanel, find a WordPress installer option.
Step two: Notice that you have several installations, become curiously interested in cleaning that up.
Step three: Go to the admin link for each of the sites, fail to notice the true significance of the fact that they all point to the exact account.
Step four [and this is crucial]: Delete.
I’ll skip the part where I checked the site and cried – it’s just not dignified for an artist. The words ‘delete existing database’ now have an emotional context that simply had not existed prior. I should have consulted @linehaus first.
Damn me.
*addendum: I may not have overwritten the previous database…