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1. slothbot
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I just switched my hosting from GoDaddy to Namecheap, backed up my wordpress root folder and closed the old account, thinking that I would be able to seamlessly just upload all of that and have everything work 100%.

   I seem to have miscalculated quite a bit. I was able to upload everything and update the wp-config, but all my old configurations and posts are gone and it's just a vanilla page with a hello world post.

   I figure there's probably something I need to update to tell it how to find the old posts - I just don't know what. I'm using Arra's theme and it's discoverytraveloutlet.com

   Thank you for any help you can give!

2. cubecolour
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   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Did you create a database & import a backup from the old database?

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server

3. slothbot
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Unfortunately all I did was copy the root folder and then I closed my hosting account. I didn't realize at the time that I needed a database backup too.

4. Shane Gowland
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Unless you have a backup saved somewhere from an earlier date, your data is completely gone.

5. slothbot
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Argh, oh well. Lesson learned for next time. Thanks for your help guys.

6. cubecolour
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   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Might be worth contacting your old host - they may have kept a backup copy of your database. Alternatively you *may* be able to retrieve some content via google archived copies - that would be a bit of a manual job to copy in though.

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