New WordPress; old files

  • Many years ago——and I mean MANY——I installed WordPress on my website using Earthlink’s (my domain host) installation plugin; and I ran a blog to which I contributed religiously for more than a year. It ran with few problems, most of which I could resolve myself.

    I had to take a hiatus from the blog in early 2010, I believe it was; and I didn’t touch the site for a very long time. Once in a while I would pay a visit to it, when I wanted to send someone a copy of what I had written about an issue; but I never upgraded WordPress; and, eventually, I could no longer access the site.

    I tried to get help from Earthlink; but, because I had skipped several upgrades, they claimed that I had installed it individually and they therefore couldn’t help me. So I’ve been unable to get back to it and bring in up to date.

    Today, I got someone at Earthlink to install the latest version; but now I cannot “see” my old blogs; and, I don’t believe the answer is to simply copy the old files from the old WordPress folder into the new folder——or, maybe it is.

    What is the solution to this dilemma. I want to restore the old site; but don’t know how to go about it.

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  • Ask Earthlink if they properly backed up and kept a copy of your database. The database contains your posts and pages. There are multiple methods to extract from the DB including manually. Start with asking them what the did with existing database.

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