Moving copy of site to new domain and logging in as new WordPress account

  • Resolved RootedUp

    (@rootedup)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    I’m going to try and explain this as best I can.

    I have an old version of a site using an outdated theme, the old site was hosted with Host Gator. I have since created a new site with a new theme on that same WordPress installation, and moved it to a new hosting provider at A Small Orange.

    What I want to do is use a brand new domain name at Host Gator, and upload the old version of that site. The old database and files are still on HostGator. So essentially I want to recreate the old site on a new domain so that I can look at posts and pages and export some of them (or at the very least copy and paste some text content from the old site to the new site).

    OR! If anyone knows how I can find and identify pages and posts from the old site using a .txt editor or something else I need to pull text content from the old site.

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  • You can get all the posts data from the database directly If you’re familiar with PhpMyAdmin,

    login to it from your control panel
    go to database that has the the website data
    click on the table that reads ‘wp_posts’ form the left side where you will have all the posts listed there but not in a very friendly interface.
    You can also search for a certain post from PhpMyAdmin if there is something specific you’re looking.

    You can learn about how to use it from this link https://codex.www.ads-software.com/phpMyAdmin

    [link moderated – keep support on this site Forum Rules.

    If you’re changing domains of a WP site, see See Moving WordPress ? WordPress Codex and WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool. You have to use the Serialized tool instead of changing URLs in a text dump or with a find/replace in phpmyadmin or you will break things.

    Once you have the old site running on a new domain, you can export posts/pages from Appearance>Tools>Export. Or, dump them from phpmyadmin in CSV, etc. Or, even cut and paste the text from individual posts in the database.

    Thread Starter RootedUp

    (@rootedup)

    Matoz!!!!

    Thank you!!! The PHP My Admin thing works, I can atleast search that and work with it!!! Thank you thank you!!!

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