Recover a deleted username

  • HawaiianRyan707

    (@hawaiianryan707)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    I just noticed from my previous sites had got hacked due to the username being Admin. So I changed and removed my Admin account and added a different user as the primary Admin account. When I deleted the old Admin account it removed all my content. I thought since I was using pages it would not remove everything. Is there any possible way to recover my old Admin user account or restore back the data to the previous site.

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    When I deleted the old Admin account it removed all my content.

    There should have been an option there to transfer all post to another author. If you have a backup of your database from prior to your deletion of your previous user account, you should be able to recover whatever is in that backup.

    Thread Starter HawaiianRyan707

    (@hawaiianryan707)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    My site is currently being hosted by GoDaddy, they did a restore backup. However, the site is still at its same state with missing images and pages. The admin username is still not there, is there any possibility of still recovering all my content?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Not unless you have an earlier database backup.

    Thread Starter HawaiianRyan707

    (@hawaiianryan707)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    The database restore backup was from a month ago, I did the restore the day after the username was deleted. But I am still not seeing any of the original content. Is there a way from the FTP to restore the username or content?

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    The database stores user data, theme settings, pages, posts, comments and so on, then your wp-contents folder holds themes, plugins and uploads. If you have done a database restoration and your pages are not showing, maybe take a look at the Dashboard to see what is there. As far as FTP is concerned, you can use that to upload anything you might have stored or backed up anywhere else.

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