Migrate wordpress files into WAMP?

  • I was working on a localhost WordPress site, when the computer I was using got literally fried in an electrical storm. I don’t have a backup or export of the site. I do, however, have the WordPress folder, containing the wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes folders, etc, as well as all the files in the WordPress folder. I also have a .zip of the theme that I was using.

    I’ve set up a new localhost WordPress install using WAMP. I’ve created a new database and installed the theme. My question is: is it possible to bring my site back to life by importing the correct files from the original WordPress folder into the C:\wamp64\www\wordpress folder? Can I resurrect my site somehow from the back end? Which files should I avoid moving? Note: the two databases do not have the same name.

    Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by elk012.
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  • You can easily restore your plugins and themes from the /wp-content directory, but unfortunately, without a backup copy of the database itself I’m afraid all of the content (posts, pages, comments, etc.. as well as any plugin or theme settings that were stored in the database) have been lost. It’s the database that actually stores all of your post/page/comment content and settings. It’s not stored in any of the WordPress files themselves.

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