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Upgrading from Wordpress 3.8.2 to latest - only files and SQL dump available

some friends of mine installed a WordPress instance at around 2013. Long story short: nothing was updated in all the time a short while ago the admin pages weren't available anymore (just blank ...
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Restore posts, but only posts that exist in my database backup

This is my situation. On 1 Jan 2023 I took a backup on my entire Wordpress database. Let's say that backup contains 100 posts. Fast forward to today, 14 Feb, and I now have say 125 posts in my ...
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How to backup my plugin database [closed]

I want to know if is there any way to back up my plugin database, anything that the plugin is created inside the database such as tables and rows. I want to back it up and restore it to another site ...
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restore backup full content or just specific folders

I have a .wpress backup, I extracted it and saw all the data, I am wanting to upload to the server this backup, but I just need to restore a specific plugin, should I restore all wp content or all ...
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How to copy a WP website to new domain name?

I have my https://example.com on my server1. I need to migrate it to https://new.example.com on my server2 This task can be long: dump database, copy all files, find and change all recurrences in DB, ...
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Is it possible to restore a deleted WordPress plugin I deleted from WordPress admin menu?

I know it is very, very stupid of me. But I deleted my plugin while I was coding my new plugin. I worked weeks, if not months, on it. I deleted it from the WordPress admin menu, by just clicking the '...
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How to backup just pages from my site, but not posts with other post_type values

I want to backup just pages from my site, but not posts with other post_type values, so my first question is – will this do the trick? enter cPanel phpMyAdmin filter the table wp_posts for post_type=...
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Locally restoring a ManageWP full site backup

I am trying to restore a full backup created by ManageWP on my local PC to use the local version for testing. I went through different guides, but I could only get the website into a half-working ...
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Batch update of WordPress Plugins

On a production site, we are having to proceed for a batch update of plugins. It is possible that the site stops to work properly because of a plugin clash. My question is: If I make a backup of the ...
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Can I delete .git folder in a completed WP project?

I manage a WP-based site with a custom theme built by a developer to whom I no longer have access. I am currently backing up the WP files via FTP and am curious about the presence of .git files in our ...
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Update a buggy installation

My site is pretty slow , so I am looking to update the wordpress in hopes of getting it back on track. What are best practices? because , getting few PHP notice & warnings in the Debug log. + The ...
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Migrate site from local to local via a backup

I have a WordPress site installed locally on my computer. The project was almost finished. Today I turned on my computer but it no longer works (categorically refusing to turn on), the repairman told ...
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How can i restore a Wordpress site with the DB and Wordpress Files

Due to some circumstances i ended up with 2 folders and the task to restore a wordpress site. One folder is called html and contains what i assume all the necessary files for the wordpress site (such ...
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Can you Recover a Wordpress User from a Backup

so basically i deleted a wordpress user, and with that user, the settings, media and many pages were deleted. is there a way to restore only that user, because he has been inactive for about a year, ...
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wp-config.php not affecting my site

I just received a backup of my WP site from the developer that includes the WP files and the database .sql file. I'm trying to install it on my server, but my WP build is ignoring wp-config.php. When ...
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What's the cleanest way to transfer WordPress to a new server

I manage a website with more than 6k posts, and I'm having some server issues, so I'm planning to transfer it to a new server, but I want to do the best not to bring the issues with it. What's the ...
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How do you enable scripts on a WordPress installation in Softaculous?

I am trying to migrate my website from one host to another, and I am not looking for a canned solution. Upon attempting to observe database information in the installation I discovered that the ...
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SQL database import #1046 error

As I am reuploading a WP website backup on a new host and importing the SQL database from phpMyAdmin, how do I solve this #1046 error ? Error SQL Request: — — Table structure for table ...
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Restoring backup of wordpress website on LAMP

I have a WordPress site with LAMP. Since I moved to a new apartment the site does not display well anymore, and I cannot access its dashboard through http://websiteurl.com/wp-admin. Since I had ...
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How to backup WP blog posts to computer, not new site

Can someone please help me? I have purchased a new domain which is now sharing with my previous one that is currently "parked" there. While I will be keeping some posts on the site, I am revamping ...
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How can I prevent anyone from logging into a WordPress failover site?

I have a nightly script set up to copy our site (and database) to a failover server. If our primary goes down, the failover server will provide service. Since the failover server is overwritten every ...
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For WordPress is there content in the database which I can safely ignore?

I am exploring possibilities to minimize the size of the database dump (for backing up the WordPress content automatically) of several WordPress instances. What I am wondering about most of all is if ...
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Unable to download backup file created using All in One WP Migration WordPress plugin

I have installed All in One WP Migration WordPress plugin and activated it. I have created backup using export as file option. Export has been done successfully, but when I am trying to download the ...
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403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php on this server

When I try to make a backup of my wordpress website through plugin I recieve the following error: "403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php on this server." This ...
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Wordpress manual restore not completely successful

I have restore my blog after around 4 years. I had a backup of both the database and wordpress files. I restore the database and wordpress files. The only manual modification I did is that I changed ...
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What happens if I replace the files of a WordPress site with another WordPress site?

I accidentally copied all the files of a WordPress development site (ver 5.1.1) and overwrote another WordPress development site (ver 5.0.4). I did not copy over the database. Each site shares some ...
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how to restore wordpress backup(.rar) manually?

I have a WordPress backup file(.rar) which was taken 3 years back and I don't know how or using which plugin(Someone else did that). I need to restore the file to my new WordPress site. I have used ...
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is it possible to install new Wordpress in an old Wordpress folder?

I have deleted my old wordpress database after backup it with a plugin "UpdraftPlus" but I keep the wp-content folder in the same old location which include all my attached files (PDF, Video, Audio, ...
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Why does importing copies of the database dump and the document root make WordPress data inconsistent?

I'm experiencing the following problem: I have a local copy of my WordPress site and a corresponding live version on my server. I added some new blog categories on my local version and created some ...
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Is it possible to separate databases in WordPress site - one for orders and the other for all non-orders related

I am new to WP but already encountered a rogue plugin which completely messed parts of my database ( it was a media library folders management plugin). I would happily restore the site back to before ...
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How to backup single post in wordpress [closed]

Please Advice me. I wanted to backup single post with data and media file. But not link with original post.
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How do you "test-restore" a backup?

I have an old backup of my site. I don't necessarily want to finalize restoring it because it might take a lot more work to rebuild the site than to work from where I have now. How can I test-restore ...
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404 on CSS and JS only on Homepage

I had to use a backup of the website and on restoration the Homepage has 404's to all JS/CSS files Every other page is accessible and does not experience the issue I've checked the permalinks, I've ...
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Can I Restore My Website Pages Without mySQL Database?

I accidentally deleted mySQL database, and I have no way to restore the database. I still have all the files like wp-admin, wp-content, wp-config.php and so on. If I create a new website with all ...
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Auomated crash recovery?

Is there, or do you know of any in development, a solution that will provide push-button recovery when a plugin update causes a crash??? Many systems now provide push-button rollback to a backup if ...
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Recovered Wordpress installation (on localhost) links broken and images not showing

I initially had a wordpress installation on a free hosting service. After the hosting suffered an attack I got a backup of all files and the database and am recovering the site on my localhost (using ...
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Is it safe to update an old site after backing it up and activating a child theme?

I am pretty new to WP and WooCommerce and have been asked to do some basic SEO work on a site which has not been updated for quite a while. I created and activated a child theme and backed it up ...
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Advice On How to Backup Wordpress

I have my site hosted with Cloudways and am using ManageWP to manage the site. I am wondering about backup options. Cloudways backs up the server and has an option to restore a particular app on ...
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How to replace website?

I have a current Wordpress website under domain.com and working (nearly finished) website under test.domain.com What would be the best method to replace the old (domain.com) website with the new ...
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back up fully Customized WordPress theme [closed]

How to back up fully Customized WordPress theme and its page, post, full setting, contact form 7 data? So that we can install it directly on any other WordPress website.
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How to transfer all posts, pages and media

I currently run a website with WordPress. I'm redesigning my current website with a new theme and changes of some plugins and urls. Currently I made a total site copy and installed the new theme and ...
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How to Move a production WordPress site to local environment [closed]

I need to know which tool that will make an exact duplicate of databases, plugins and everything to my local. free or paying. Thanks in advance.
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How To Run A Temporary Instance Of a Wordpress Backup Without a Database?

I have a complete copy of the WordPress directory of an old site from 2015. The client states that the site was shut down around then, but they wish to restore it to the way it was. I understand that ...
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WPCLI search and replace in a particlar site dir effect another site-dir

In /var/www/html I have a site dir. I've duplicated that site's dir and db into a new site dir and db by the name of "test" (without quote marks), and changed wp-config.php accordingly. I Navigated ...
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Cron jobs in wordpress

I have a site in WordPress, perfectly configured, but I can not configure the CRON for it and its plugins. The WordPress Cron is enabled, but the following message appears in the crontab of the ...
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Restoring from a old local copy of xampp folder where the project was stored

Alright, I did a stupid mistake as my hard drive was failing. I only copied the whole xampp folder and now I want to restore the project. Is it possible and how can I do it. I know it's stupid and I'm ...
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How can I export data without using any import/export plugin

I am making a theme for myself so I have made simple theme options for customization I just want to add export function triggered by a button. I have checked these two examples Problem: Create a ...
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How to periodically roll back WordPress to a fixed point in time?

I have a demo WordPress site that showcases a plugin I created. The plugin lets users interact with content from the front-end and could potentially result in a nightmare of content bloat over time. I'...
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Wordpress menu issue after update

INHERITED WEBSITE - I'm taking over an existing Wordpress website (prepwellness.org) and I noticed several things wrong with the Wordpress GUI. 1) It didn't have a "Posts" option in the left ...
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How to clone and locally run a network for testing

I have a live network installed on a remote web server. I am about to start writing some plugins for it but want to test that they behave before disrupting a live site. I was thinking that I would ...
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