Title: Importing wordpress from wordpress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Importing wordpress from wordpress

 *  [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/)
 * (@ethomasmcginnis)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/)
 * I exported my wordpress blog from one installation, then imported it to a new
   one on a new host. All the content is there (posts and pages are available in
   the admin area), but it doesn’t look the same (type in my url and get a “this
   site is under development” notice.
 * How do I get rid of that? And it doesn’t look like my theme imported. Do I have
   to set that up all over again?
 * Please help.
    Thank you!

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/#post-2056426)
 * at a guess, your new host has a placeholder page you need to delete – like `index.
   html`
    this will allow wordpress’ `index.php` to work
 * you will have to set your theme and plugins up again as they do not export/import
   from the dashboard
 *  Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/)
 * (@ethomasmcginnis)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/#post-2056430)
 * is there a way to get my theme and plugins back with a backup file?
 * And I think you’re right about the other thing, there’s a home.html I’m going
   to go try to delete.
    Thanks for your quick response!
 *  Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/)
 * (@ethomasmcginnis)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/#post-2056441)
 * Yes, thank you, the first/main problem is fixed. I needed to both delete the 
   home.html and ADD my param.xml file, now I can see my blog.
 * BUT I really thought I would get my whole theme back with all the customizations
   and widget items back with the export or backup or something. I have a clone 
   of the whole FTP folder on my desktop, can I get it back from there?
 * I moved over the theme folder, but that’s still generic, no widgets.
    Thanks 
   again!
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/#post-2056446)
 * since you didn’t do a database back up / import, you don’t have any theme settings
   stored, so you will need to recreate it
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/#post-2056448)
 * All you will need to do go in widgets and drag the ones you were using.
    you 
   can uplaod your plugins from your desk top in wp-contents/plugins folder and 
   activate them from admin panel.
 *  Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/)
 * (@ethomasmcginnis)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/#post-2056453)
 * Hmmm, but I did do a database backup as well. The export/import feature just 
   seemed easy. (and the documentation didn’t say that I would lose anything)
 * So is it too late to use the the database backup? And would that involve going
   into the sql database? (I’m not very good at that!)
 * I just remembered I still have my blog running on the old host in the blog folder,
   so at least I can go back and forth and look at it to recreate all my customization.
 * Guess I’m all set then, thanks for your help Samuel!
    – Emma
 *  Thread Starter [ethomasmcginnis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethomasmcginnis/)
 * (@ethomasmcginnis)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-wordpress-from-wordpress/#post-2056454)
 * oh, govpatel, thanks! we posted simulaneously.
 * Yes, that’s how I’ll have to recreate my widgets, but I would still need the 
   content from the widgets such as text/html. But I got it now from my old install.
 * got the plugins, now I’ll go activate them. Thanks!

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