Title: Copying Content
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Copying Content

 *  [danvike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danvike/)
 * (@danvike)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-content/)
 * I’ve developed a wordpress demo site using woocommerce and now need to copy all
   the content developed into a new url running wordpress. What files do I copy 
   over so brings over the content but does not point to the old demo website I 
   used to start this project. I used ftp to copy all the files from the old to 
   the new. I’m just looking for the content.

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 *  [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/)
 * (@theotherlebowski)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-content/#post-5439407)
 * the content is stored in the database so you’d need to import those tables to
   get all of the posts and pages content. the images and other media are in the
   uploads folder of your site which you can download and upload to the new site
   via ftp.
 * also make sure that the new site is exactly the same environment as the testing
   site: same plugins with the same settings, same permalinks structure etc or things
   will go squiffy.
 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-content/#post-5439409)
 * The content of a WordPress website is NOT in the files, it is all stored in the
   database.
    Suggest that you read this article: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
 * It may be that rather than doing this, that you want to redevelop the new site
   to operate like the old site, this would entail opening the PAGES or POSTS in
   your present site, and pasting the content into new PAGES / POSTS on the new 
   site.
 *  Thread Starter [danvike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danvike/)
 * (@danvike)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-content/#post-5439611)
 * Thanks for the info. Can you tell me where the database file or files are that
   I need to copy to the new site?
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-content/#post-5439612)
 * There’s some good information about backing up and restoring the WordPress database
   located in the Codex: [Backing Up Your Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)
 * Some more information that might be helpful: [Moving WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)

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