Title: Retrieve lost posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Retrieve lost posts

 *  [jemtee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemtee/)
 * (@jemtee)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-lost-posts/)
 * Hi, I for some reason unistalled wordpress on my site and then installed it again
   and then overwrote all the earlier posts. I did a total backup with hostmonster
   before I did this. But I can´t figure out how to get my posts back. Can someone
   guide me pls?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-lost-posts/#post-1084931)
 * restore the database back up of before changes
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup](http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup)

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-lost-posts/#post-1084931)
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