Salvaging Legacy Data

  • Hi all,

    I’m attempting to help a friend resurrect his legacy WordPress site. Here’s the data …

    He had an old WordPress site that he did not manage at all – roughly version 3.0 or so.

    Recently he found out that there was some hacking attempts on this older legacy version and other tech issues

    He did not know the login and password so he could not get into it

    His techs on site deleted old site and put up new empty wordpress for him.

    Previously he had an older manual data backup directory that the designer had given to him, prior to any issues

    I have the legacy folder which I believe was not a “backup” – but just the raw WordPress files from his site manually copied out of the directory.

    So now, I put up a test site and put a new WordPress 3.9.1 installation up

    GOAL: if I can create a working WordPress site from his legacy data – then I can export it properly and easily import it into the real new website.

    Question: How do I replace the new WordPress – and put up his old WordPress content data and get the old theme up etc. all from this manual legacy directory?

    Question: any ideas would be greatly appreciated how to get this working.

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  • how was the data saved?

    was it directly exported from WordPress using its own export facility or is a database back up?

    If you just have the raw WordPress files (that is, the .php files), then unfortunately you may not have anything, as WP stores all of its data in a database.

    If it was exported somehow – either directly from the database or from WP – then there may be something to restore.

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