I built a financial website / marketplace by using wordpress approximately 9 years ago. We had a custom domain for the site and hosted the wordpress on that domain. Our host literally folded at the time and because I wasn't monitoring communications with them, we eventually lost everything.
I let the domain expire with time & the business idea BUT, after many communications with the host at the time (who folded) pleading for them to at the very least send me relevant files / database, they did BUT I never did anything with it as I ended up focused on other businesses. I am not a developer - rather a guy who can design websites and savvy enough to do it all myself without code at a good level via wordpress etc... - but not savvy on the dev, import, SQL stuff or migrating/renewing old content/domain to new site.
I have an SQL file provided from them (database I guess) & the basic site files that appear to be just the wordpress theme I guess as I can't really see custom content within them that is mine. I was wondering if there is a way to import/migrate this to a new wordpress site/domain or simply to view it right now? I am happy to get someone to help me if the content is valid. Would I need to get a wordpress / SQL person to do it? OR, is this content basically lost?
I'm looking to renew the business idea so a lot of content would be new but we did create a few hundred pages of content which as you know, will take a year or two sadly... We did a lot of work on this but let it fold due to other priorities.
Would love to renew this content as a starting place.
Any advice helpful. Thanks
Mike
