Blog reboot

  • I am currently trying to transfer hosting of a wordpress blog from a co-worker’s account to my bluehost account. He handed me a giant folder of php files, telling me to rebuild the website using those. So I started a new wordpress blog, and then found it in my FTP (just under public_HTML). The starter had the same four folders that he gave me (cgi-bin, wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes) and mess of random php files outside those folders. So I replaced all the files with the ones he gave me. So far the only thing that seemed to change is the plug-ins (it has all of the uploaded ones), however everything else is still the basic starter blog stuff. So do I need to do something else to get everything started? Any help is appreciated

    Additional information: I have another wordpress blog on my bluehost account. Its under public_HTML/blog and I compared the stuff my co-worker gave me versus the the content on the other blog, and they seemed to have all the same files.

    I also tried just downloading the whole file onto public_HTML, this didn’t seem to change anything.

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  • WordPress is composed of two main things: The files (This will include themes and plugins–The look of the site.) and the database (This will include all the post content, pages content, custom settings, etc.)

    The files are generally fairly easily replaceable. The database is the most important part.

    It sounds like you have the files but are missing the database. Your co-worker will need to get you his database before you can get much further.

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