Need some help understanding how to move WP

Hi,

I’ve gone through the codex on Moving WordPress and tried to move my WP site\database to a new host but ran into problems so I’m missing something.

This is all it says for what I’m trying to do

If you are changing to a new server but same domain, all you need to do is edit wp-config.php with your new database/user information and upload everything as it is to your new server.

What does this mean?

I backed up the WP DB (cPanal & phpMyAdmin) and backed home directory containing everything for the domain, giving me 2 zipped files.

On the new server I uploaded the home-directory containing all the files but I’m stuck when it comes to the database.

I installed WP on the new server so it pointed to the home-directory and then I imported the old DB files into the new database and it seemed to work ok but the site was not ok and just looked like a new WP site, no plugins from before, no theme, no pages or anything relating to the site as it was on the first server.

Can anyone help me understand what’s going on and what I need to do?

Thanks

[No bumping, thank you.]