Lost everything when changing domains!

  • elizabethtp

    (@elizabethtp)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    I had previously built out my site on a subdomain from my hosting platform. I changed the site url and home url to my new domain and installed wordpress and everything reverted to blank! I started to rebuild my site when I stopped in hopes of finding a backup somewhere. Anyone know how to revert the pages, media…EVERYTHING back to the previously built site?

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    I changed the site url and home url to my new domain and installed wordpress and everything reverted to blank!

    Where did you change these? In the dashboard?

    If you changed theme in the dashboard, then, using FTP/ SFTP , or your web-host’s cPanel or whatever file management application your host provides, access phpMyAdmin on your host, then find your DB, there check the wp_options Table (Note: The table prefix of wp_ may be different if you changed it when installing), and make sure siteurl field and home field are correct. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database

    If you don’t feel comfortable messing with the database, contact your hosting provider to help you with this or try other methods described in the aforementioned codex

    If you haven’t already done, always backup your database before doing any actions, just in case something really goes wrong. You can never have enough backups!

    For more info see https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

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