In preparing to launch my site with its own domain (i.e. without “wordpress” at the end of the url), I was instructed to go into my GoDaddy hosting account and transfer all the wordpress files into the html folder.<\/p>\n
However, after doing that my site did not publish. When I go to my wp dashboard all I see are my pages (without the images I uploaded) and my posts. The dashboard is telling me I have no theme installed. All my widgets, plugins, and images in my media library are gone.<\/p>\n
GoDaddy is now telling me I was supposed to backup my database, download it, and then upload it to my hosting account, THEN transfer the wp files to the html folder.<\/p>\n
At this point I am not sure what to do reinstate the site. Since wp is telling me I have no theme, do I reinstall the theme at the risk of losing my work? Do I backup the database, download it, and then upload the files to my hosting account.<\/p>\n
I would truly appreciate some guidance.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1639693","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1639693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1639693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}