Restoring Site

  • adamag

    (@adamag)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hi guys!

    I have a wordpress website and the only files I have is the files which I zip up from the public_html directory which contains all of the wordpress site files.

    I don’t have anything else though. Is it possible to restore a site in such situation?

    Hope for your kind guidance, thank you for reading!

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  • Stef

    (@serafinnyc)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Do you have the database (SQL or CSV file) that came with it or is it in the zip file? If so, Yes. Without a database SQL it won’t be possible.

    JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    What I’ve done a couple times in the past was to build a brand new site somewhere then carefully migrate my files over top of that to get back my themes, plugins, and media.

    Sometimes you’ll find an intact backup within the site files from some wayward backup plugin that placed complete backups inside the site’s file area. The proper place is outside in a non-web directory or ‘elsewhere’ totally off-site. Thumb drives are cheap insurance!

    Sometimes you discover ‘hints’ of where the content was and a few other helpful tidbits and then you go over to the Wayback Machine looking for historical content so you can manually recreate most of that.

    The Wayback Machine

    This isn’t always easy but if the site was known to the Wayback Machine you can do some cut and paste work then associate images and such to the media that is still present in your file system and do a plausible reconstruction from there.

    The more info you can scrape together the easier this can be…

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by JNashHawkins.
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