david.frazer

It looks like they are using the theme Divi from here. It’s not a free theme, though.

Are you sure you’re doing the import procedure correctly, as shown here and not directly importing the file into the media library?

Once we can get this figured out, I think you’ll be happy you switched to your own installation. You’ll get a lot more freedom over your site.

I’m sorry for the late response to this. I’m hoping that you didn’t lose your data, but it’s pretty concerning that you’re being prompted to do the installation each time.
Did you create any posts, pages or navigation menus in your original site? If so, do you know how to use phpMyAdmin to browse the tables in your database? Look through the database and try to find the table wp_posts to see if there are any rows in that table that match the posts, pages, etc that you may have created previously. This document will help you to understand the database better (if you’re interested): https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Database_Description.

If you aren’t able to find anything that looks familiar to you in the database, then you may have lost all of your data when you updated phpMyAdmin. Based on the phpMyAdmin documentation (https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html#zero-configuration), I don’t see why an update to phpMyAdmin would have affected your WordPress database, though.

Great! I’m glad you were able to figure it out!

Did you lose all of your data from the phpMyAdmin update? Is your question about trying to recover that data or about just trying to get a fresh installation of WordPress again?

Are you sure that both Apache and MySQL are running in MAMP? Are you able to access PHPMyAdmin and see if the WordPress database is still there?

I think zhuji91 is right that you should do a fresh install with your exported data. If you’re worried that you may have trouble doing it, then perhaps you could practice it locally on your machine using WAMP/MAMP instead of on your live site.

Perhaps a tutorial video could help you with this? I’ve never used GoDaddy before, but here is a tutorial video from 2013 that might be able to help you some.