Backing up my wordpress help and question

  • rjr16uk

    (@rjr16uk)


    11 years, 12 months ago

    Hi guys,

    I hope you will bear with me while explain my question and issue.

    After lots of trouble trying to move my finished site on a subdomain (testweb) to the main public folder to replace the main domain, we have eventually realised that my current sites files are duplicated in the testweb folder in public html, so there are my wordpress/divi theme files and the joomla files all mixed in together, a mess!

    So my idea and what I would like to get advice from you guys on, is if I was to back up my current wordpress site maybe via a plugin, would this save the theme, images, layout everything? just making a copy of the current site? My idea is to completely delete the testweb folder from my cpanel files, create a new one, re-install wordpress into my server and then upload the back up into wordpress, would this work? and would the files go into the new testweb folder on my server? Assuming it would as its connected to the server?

    Any advice on the above would be really apreciated.

    Many thanks 🙂

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  • InclusiveHost-John

    (@inclusivehost-john)

    11 years, 12 months ago

    By default WordPress should be pretty static in terms of the layout. The WordPress files, besides “index.php” and “xmlrpc.php” would be prefixed with “wp-“. So you can identify all of those in your root directory. You then have three folders:

    wp-admin
    wp-content
    wp-includes

    The above three should contain all your plugins, themes, etc, so it shouldn’t really be that hard to identify which belongs to WordPress and which to Joomla.

    To answer your question differently, it would depend on how the plugin operates. As there are basically unlimited themes and plugins available, I don’t think they would code it in the way you are thinking – only grabbing the legitimate files. It would likely grab all the folder contents. You could try it though and see in a test account.

    Thread Starter rjr16uk

    (@rjr16uk)

    11 years, 12 months ago

    Hi thankyou for the reply, your right within my testweb folder there is wp-admin, wp-conent and wp-includes, can I ask would the files index.php and xmlrpc also be within those folders? If thats the case than one would assume everything else within my testweb folder could be deleted? because that folder should just just be for my wordpress and divi theme site?

    Thanks again

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