And this is why I keep telling people to always keep regular “Full Site” backups.

“Expect the Unexpected”

I made it a habit years ago that even with a small update to a plugin, theme, and especially WordPress, to always make a backup before I click update. With this recent issue, I purposely did not update my Rough Pixels website to 6.1.1 until I decided to go for it–albeit, cautiously. I did this just a day before the problem came to light. Oddly, my site was OK. It’s on 6.2.2 now.

As a side note: Worst-case scenario is that if you are on a good host, they should have backups to rollback your website.