Title: WordPress reinstall approach
Last modified: April 15, 2018

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# WordPress reinstall approach

 *  [ecce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecce/)
 * (@ecce)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-reinstall-approach/)
 * I need to reinstall my wordpress site, but I want to keep my articles and uploaded
   media. Themes, plugins and so on must NOT be saved.
 * I know there are a bunch of articles on how to re-install wordpress and how to
   backup your data. But none om them fits my needs. Most of them assumes a bunch
   of things like having PHPMyAdmin or even being able to access the wordpress via
   HTTP.
 * I’d like to do a more basic re-install, using CLI. I use a manually installed
   wordpress on Linux/Apache on a standalone server. This is my plan:
 * 1. Backup the database using mysqldump.
    2. Backup the complete wordpress installation(
   web root and all sub directories). The main thing I need here are the uploaded
   media files. 3. Wipe the server completly, re-installing new operating system,
   then web server and wordpress 4. Importing the old database, that should give
   me my articles text back. 5. Put the uploaded media files in the right folder.
   That should give me the images in the articles back.
 * What do you think. Will this work?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-reinstall-approach/#post-10183857)
 * That should work. Be sure to have all the files in place before you reimport 
   the database so everything’s in place the first time you access the site.

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