Can’t import site

  • Unknown's avatar

    I had a WordPress site many years ago that I thought I downloaded correctly but which I’d migrated previously to a domain I owned couchsurfingcook.com. It was a site I paid for and had a customized theme, etc. but which I gave up b.c. I didn’t want to keep paying for the domain name. I’m now trying to re-post this old content on a free site I re-activated (Couchsurfingcook.wordpress.com) but do not see that I have a .XML or Zip for that old site, although I have LOTS of files with ending suffixes like .rss, .php, etc. Does anyone know if there is a way to figure out where the text at least is in this downloaded folder so that I could try to rebuild some of this old content onto a free platform?

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  • Unknown's avatar

    Content of a selfhosted WordPress.org is stored in a database not in the files you have downloaded. If you don’t have a xml-file, you must start your site from scratch.

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    Even if it was on a .com platform through its own domain? I have one folder called XML but when I click inside it I see another folder called Declaration and another called Parser.php. Is there a way for me to upload the files I have to this forum to see if someone could figure out where the text is being stored? Thank you for responding!

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    I see an XML document titled wlwmanifest.

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    The files you mention are used for the XML-importer.

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