Importing old WP to new WP account

  • Resolved benatsilverlake

    (@benatsilverlake)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Here’s what’s going on.

    My company has a client who had a WordPress site developed on their old hosting provider “platypus”. They switched over to NetworkSolutions and I have created a new wordpress account for them. They sent me their entire wordpress file zipped up. It’s chock full of PHP files. How can I import their entire wordpress from their old hosting service over to the new wordpress that I created for them?

    I am inside of their new wordpress right now and just trying to figure out how to import these to the new site. There is no XML file that I can find, there are 0 HTML files anywhere. I am at a loss for how to get this all transferred over for them seemlessly.

    Thanks.

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  • There should be a .sql file or another zip containing a .sql file. That is the database, you need that.

    The rest is cake:

    https://lmgtfy.com/?q=moving+a+wordpress+site

    You need access to the old database or a backup you can restore. If the old database is gone so is their content except for graphics which will be a wp-content/uploads.

    Thread Starter benatsilverlake

    (@benatsilverlake)

    Oh boy. This involves creating a new database and all that jazz. I have no idea what I’m doing, but here goes nothing. Will post when I either successfully do it, or irreparably mess up.

    Thanks!

    It would probably be better and easier to just use the WordPress Importer. I did and it worked great, was really easy.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-importer/

    Thread Starter benatsilverlake

    (@benatsilverlake)

    I agree, but I need an XML file to do that, correct?

    You might have to do a little clean up after the import or make a few adjustments so the old posts match the new stuff but other than that, no database, technical hardship required on this one. It’s not rated high but like I mentioned, it worked for me very good so I told you. ??

    yeh, when you click on import, it’s gonna ask you for the file. Go to the old site to get the file, save it, then upload on new site WP importer.

    Thread Starter benatsilverlake

    (@benatsilverlake)

    I’m trying to get ahold of their previous host. They are the ones who built the site, so I have no way to retrieve the XML file by exporting it.

    That’s why I was trying to find a way around it, and I have no SQL experience what so ever. I’ve never migrated a website. Theoretically it is simple to me, but in practice, I just don’t have the experience to understand key portions of what I’m reading in these step by step guides.

    I dunno, man. If you can’t get the xml from the old site, can you still access the posts to copy them and repost them to the new site? I know it will be a drag to do it all over again but I see no other way unless you can create that needed upload file from the old site. You shouldn’t have to mess with the sql, each site has its own database. Maybe your hosting provider (old site) can get you the xml file copy made from the old database, ask ’em.. or they can tell you how to do it.

    Thread Starter benatsilverlake

    (@benatsilverlake)

    Yeah, I will contact them tomorrow and try to sort it out.

    I appreciate all of your help. I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved!

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