How to Put WordPress Together Again?

  • michellel

    (@michellel)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    I am usually pretty good with WP, but I admittedly only ever work with the front end and stay away from the database.

    Through a series of unfortunately events, I lost my hosting company and, in the process, everything that went with it. I moved my domain names rapidly, knowing I had backups of all the files on my hard drive.

    So here’s the thing. I have a domain name in a new location. I have all of the wp-content/include/etc folders and their contents (media, images, plugins), and I even have a .txt dump from the database with all the appropriate information (I hope).

    I don’t know how to put it all back together. Any guidance on how to piece together my WP puzzle would be appreciated. Thanks!

    – Michelle

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  • amberleighturner

    (@amberleighturner)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    It’s quite easy. Hopefully this article will help you import your dumped database.

    http://www.convert-in.com/import-mysql-dump.htm

    WordPress also has a feature to import the WordPress generated backup too. This is found under tools in the admin panel.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#WordPress

    I hope this helps!

    Thread Starter michellel

    (@michellel)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    That will definitely help with the database portion. I assume that my steps are as follows:

    1. Install a fresh database and fresh install of WP.
    2. Dump my old database into the new using the above steps.

    And then everything will magically show up where it is supposed to?

    I wish I’d had the foresight to export all my posts and such. I was hoping that was stored in the database. Is it not? I pretty much just have the actual file folders as I copied them from the old host onto my hard drive. No official export file. 🙁 Will that make a difference?

    amberleighturner

    (@amberleighturner)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    From what I remember it should be in the database. The database has all of your settings too. You can always import the dump and go into the admin panel and check.

    Thread Starter michellel

    (@michellel)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    I’m doing a fresh install now and will go from there. Thanks for your help! I have my fingers crossed.

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