nurbz

Complete success! thank you so much for your insights and the instruction from the provided link.

Thank you for writing Cory.
I know you recommend installing to an empty folder – but what about “restoring” to the public_html folder? Will the excluded site folders remain untouched?

I found the root path – thank you. So that full path would have to be used in each exclusion like this?
/home/account-name/plublic_html/WP2;
/home/account-name/plublic_html/WP3;
/home/account-name/plublic_html/shoppingcart;
/home/account-name/plublic_html/WP4;

Paul

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it might have something to do with the widget title.