I made some changes to my website and now I want to undo them. How can I restore my site to how it used to be?

The answer to this is in the question itself: “Restore”. You need to restore from a backup. If you don’t have a backup of how the site used to be then you need to undo your changes one by one and this is not at all easy and in some cases is impossible.

A web hosting company will create a regular backup in case of system failure but this will be your site as it is today (not what you want!).
If you’re lucky, your web designer will have a copy of your site when it was first designed (I always keep a copy for my clients just in case). This is OK if you haven’t changed your site much since it was built.

If you have a database (as used in shops, estate agencies, forums, blogs etc) then you really need to backup regularly and certainly before any changes. You can do this yourself or ask your designer (I charge 25 Euros). Remember to backup the site (pages etc) AND the database!!

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