Need help retrieving lost blog posts

  • Hi, I’m hoping someone could help me here I really need it.

    In Sept. 2010 I setup a blog (classicreplacmentsblog.com) to which I added posts to for over 10 years. During the pandemic, sometime after May 22, 2020 (according to what I can retrieve from the Wayback Machine), my blog was hacked and began to show adult material. I was too busy to get to it until recently when I had Godaddy, through which I own the domain name, change the dns away from where it was and just park it.

    My question is, where are all the blog posts now and how can I retrieve them?

    Since this was setup so long ago I have zero recollection who did it or any other info about it, but as you can see by the bottom of the picture at the Wayback Machine it has something to do with WordPress (not sure which one). Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Sincerely,

    Josh Phelps

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hello. ??

    First off, all the sympathy that you’re dealing with this. What a mess! Fortunately, hope may not be lost. The posts are probably all still in the database.

    GoDaddy provides access to the database in their admin panel with phpMyAdmin. You can go in there and do an Export of the entire database (or optionally just the posts and post_meta tables).

    Then you could import those tables into any other site (also with phpMyAdmin) which could even be a local site on your own computer.

    You’ll also want to go in with FTP and download the /wp-content/ file as it’ll have all of your media library images.

    NOTE: /wp-content/ may also have some hack code in there, so be sure to check carefully.

    Hope this helps!

    … recently when I had Godaddy… change the dns away from where it was and just park it.

    Where was the DNS pointed before you made GoDaddy change it?

    That would tell who was hosting the site before the change.

    Thread Starter crbtroubleshoot

    (@crbtroubleshoot)

    i think to name cheap or something like that.

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