Easiest way to view archived old WordPress site?
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Preface: I don’t know the technical side of WordPress to save my life, so please ELI5 if there’s no simple solution to what I need.
I redesigned my company’s site using my own code outside of WordPress. Before going live, I downloaded everything from the server. It’s a huge mess of files. Now I want to just view what the site looked like, screenshot individual pages, etc. I don’t know what to do with all of these PHP files. I can’t even figure out what to search for.
I don’t want to host everything, I just want to view the old site locally, or upload everything to a free wordpress.com account. When I tried importing everything to a wordpress.com page I set up it wanted an XML file, which I don’t have.
Seriously, I just want to see what the old site looked like. It doesn’t need any non-static functionality. I don’t care about form submissions or logging in. Can someone help me out?
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Hi mazel, if you only need screenshots and not a full site restore, have you thought about using the internet archive? It’s not perfect, but it may be your easiest bet. Just look for the old site there (enter the address with the “Wayback Machine”), click back in time, and tap on a date that has a dot to view a capture of what they have.
https://archive.org/They don’t have everything, though, and sometimes a capture will be missing images and what not.
If that doesn’t work, you’ll need to use your backup files to get something up and running, and how you go about that will depend on what files you kept. Just note the XML file we ask for on a free site would only contain the data for the site, so even if you had that, it wouldn’t give you the look and feel so much as the content of the pages.
I hope that helps.
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Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best solutions. What a brilliant idea, thank you so much!
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