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1. activ_x
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Help>>>
   Hope someone can assist...
   I recently encountered an error in establishing Database connection for my Blog...and I had a killer blog, if I may say so myself.

   Due to the connection issue...I decided to download the whole blog contents to my desktop and recreate the database.

   As you can guess, the new database has no relation to the initial DB that had a connection issue.

   Long story short, I'm attempting to locate my initial posts to my blog within the files downloaded to my desktop...
   All the .php files have code instructing other php files how to behave etc.

   WHERE in the HEBEEJEBEES do I find my posts to copy and upload back to the server?
   Before the database issue, I could right click on the home page, select "view source" and I was able to view the contents in html format... so I assume the files are all over the place somewhere, but they have to be there somewhere...how do I find the initial index.php file with the blog posts...if such file even exists?

   Why's wordpress so complicated when everything's moving to point and click?

   Any assistance would be appreciated....I had monetized my blog, and I honestly have lost all the energy to recreate the initial content.

   Many thanks

2. Justin Tadlock
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Your posts are kept in the database; they're not kept in files. If you didn't back up your database or have a copy of it somewhere, then all of your posts are gone.

   Read:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

3. Roy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Did you upgrade to 2.7? You didn't do anything with the wp-config file perhaps? If you did, your old posts are probably still in the database, but you have wrong information in your wp-config.

4. activ_x
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for all your input...this really is a major blow to my moral.
   I am hosting multiple domains on one account and that's where the initial issue started.

   I had to delete a blog off another domain but somehow that domain was sharing a DB with my main site...and I did not save the data.

   I was hoping Google would have cached the page, but nope...

   So here I am, with just the theme, all the plugins to make Mother Teresa proud...but no content.

   I'll try the other search engines to see if they've cached the main page content.

   Thank you all for the input.

5. activ_x
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Happy days are here again......

   I'm soooooo happy...Yahoo actually cached the whole page PLUS all the content...I've just copied it all and pasted it into the blog!

   YIPPIEE!

6. Len
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Glad you got it back. I was going to suggest also trying the Internet Archive.

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