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A complete WordPress backup are 2 parts; WP folders(and files) AND database. See to it that the person who gave the zip to you also provided the database. Only after you have the complete backup, follow this https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress But tbh, doing this requires some experiences with database, and most likely it’s not gonna be one time and done for those never done it before.

Is the old site also still accessible online? If the answer is yes, I think you can still make it

In your zip, navigate to this
<strong>/wp-content/themes/{theme-name}</strong>

Make a copy of theme folder and zip it, then go to your new WordPress install on the new host and login and upload the theme via Appearance > Themes . Since it’s a small site with several pages, it’s better to just manually creating pages anyway. Create pages, also add images (just download from old site one by one) to match each page on the old site.

Do the same thing for the plugin(s), if there is any that’s necessary.
<strong>/wp-content/plugins/{plugin-name}</strong>

So the real job description here is not moving WP from a backup to a new hosting server, but rather importing or converting a static html website into WordPress system.

The right method depends on how big that static website is.

If it’s a small site with not many pages, it’s better to do it manually, this way we will have a clean install and everything is in the right place.

For a big site with many like hundreds pages, try using a plugin like this one
https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-html-pages/

From the plugin description, it states that “Imports well-formed static HTML files into WordPress”, so the result will depend on how well-formed that html pages are. Otherwise there will be a lot of things to clean up manually.

Doing this requires some basic knowledge of WordPress, like post,page,taxonomy, and template hierarchy so that we can manage the content properly where it should belong to. So if you are new to WordPress, I would recommend reading through this page before actually doing it.

What You Most Need to Know About WordPress
https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

This is configurable via WordPress’s Appearance → Menus

To link a menu item to any html page on other site, just use the Custom Links and fill in url and page’s name.

Appearance → Menus
https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen

Are you positive this just happened after 4.9 update?

I can see in the html source that the alignment problem is not tied to caption, but the class="aligncenter" code is missing from the image’s tag.

Some images are bigger (wider) than content width and that’s why it appears to be centered even if it doesn’t have class="aligncenter" code in image’s html tag.

To fix this, we have to go to each image and assign that aligncenter class via WordPress image management, or if you are comfortable writing code just go right in the code and add it (switch to Text mode editing, not the Visual one).

This code should do it, use it via Additional CSS option, or a Custom CSS plugin.

.site-description {
	display: block !important;
}

Hi, it seems the theme is not hosted here in WordPress.org repo, but anyway I think your theme already have that function built-in, as shown in theme’s demo page. So try configure it properly.

One thing I see on that page is that the images are linked to image attachment page, usually the lightbox/slideshow effect works when images linked to image’s URL (bigger version of it). So try going to the gallery and change the Link to option to image url, and also make sure to configure theme setting to enable this lightbox/slideshow effect.

Hi, the theme currently in use is Storefront and its support forum is here, https://wordpress.org/support/theme/storefront (so you can post theme specific question there)

When you have your repeatable image ready, see if the background image upload is available in theme option, also see if the “fixed” background attachment already provided by theme. If it’s so, then we are done, no need to do anything else.

In case theme’s built in options don’t provide that above, try uploading the repeatable background image into any post (or page), just use a post or page to upload the image to it but we don’t need to use image in that post/page. Once uploaded, get the image url, and the use this code below via any Custom CSS plugin.

body {
	background-image: url(http://example.com/my-repeatable-background-image.png);
	background-attachment: fixed;
	background-position: top center;
	background-repeat: repeat;
}

Just change the image url to your own.

Example of Custom CSS plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-css/

I can’t help but wonder if it’s still better to keep all these unattached items in the WP media library as an insurance policy.

I don’t think attaching the unattached images will remove images from plugin’s folder, but backing up the image folder is just a few clicks away via FTP.

Anyway, you might already know this but just to be sure. For those unattached images, we can manage to attach them on Media Library page (click on Unattached tab and click attach on individual image and choose the post that the image belongs to). Keep in mind that once attached, there is no way to unattached it on Media Library page, you have to go to the edit post page and delete that image and re-upload to new post.

Once you got all images attached to the post it belongs, make sure from then on to upload images via post edit page only, this will automatically attach the image to the post. Don’t upload image via Media Library page.

WordPress native image/gallery function is not perfect but I find it good enough to build a photo gallery blog without plugins. I usually use WP native gallery shortcode with a simple code like this ‘[gallery]‘ will display a 3 columns gallery just like instagram, and optionally I would use a plugin just for a lightbox effect.