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1. buzzbrockway
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   My blog was hacked and as a result I had to delete version 2.0.3 of WP to version 2.3. I was unable to export my posts but I was able to download all the old data. Is there a way to easily import my old posts into the WP version 2.3?

   Thanks,
   Buzz

2. shadow
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Did you backup the database?

3. buzzbrockway
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   No. I have the archive folders though.

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   There is no archive folder(s) in WP. So, what do you have?
   And just for the record and for the future: all your content, like posts, comments, Pages and settings - are always stored in the database, never in any file(s).

5. buzzbrockway
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have three folders titled 2003, 2004 and 2005. Inside those folders are 12 folders for each month of the year. Perhaps they are left from an old version of WP?

   So the posts would be in the SQL database?

   Thanks for the help folks.

6. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Was that blog ever imported from blogger or from some other blogging tool? Those folders, usually, appear when that happened...

7. buzzbrockway
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Actually yes, I forgot that. I suppose I could just import them using the 'import' function under the 'manage' menu option?

8. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Maybe... however, they contain ONLY the posts that were in that old blogging tool. Nothing made with WordPress!

9. buzzbrockway
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Looks like I'm screwed. I can import the old 'blogger' posts but these hackers corrupted my WP database. Luckily, the Wayback Machine at archive.org has quite a bit of my more recent posts, but I'll have to do that by hand.

   Thanks for the information folks.

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