We’re sorry that this happened. The problem was that we edited a live WordPress theme page in the theme editor, only to receive the error Scrape key check failed. Please try again. This caused footer.php to become completely blank.

The reason we edited footer.php was to add a script to show an embed to indicate the status of the page using Statuspage from Atlassian, which powers this very page. The irony is not lost on us.

We live-edited it because we didn’t want to change the theme, which is not one of the newer block-enabled themes, to another theme (e.g. the default theme, which is block-enabled) because we were worried about changes that might occur.

To fix it, we changed the file directly on the server from a backup. We recognise this is a bit dodgy, but we had to do it again when it turned out that the status embed didn’t work as hoped.

In the future, if we wish to make changes like this, we will take the site offline first. (Ideally, we’d create a child theme to add the embed status script, but this particular theme seems not be updated any more, and we’re trying to avoid yak-shaving.)

Thank you for your patience, and apologies if you saw a strange status embed.