Importing backed up website
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I’m looking to import my old WordPress website that was hosted elsewhere. I only have the .sql and .zip files. The .zip file is 564,792KB in size. Can this be uploaded on the free plan?
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hi,
What is the content of the zip file ?
The normal way to import from another WordPress site is via Import of a file generated by Export.
The file size limit is 15 MB.
If it is larger than that, you can generate smaller export files by exporting by category or time range.Let us know if you have more questions.
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It is an old website for a football club. It’s very much over 15MB.
The bigger problem is I can no longer get in to the old admin as I no longer have control of the domain name, so cannot get in to do import/export. I can still get in to the old server and have made a backup of the database and web files into a .sql and .zip respectively.
Can I do anything with that?
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hi,
Not directly at WordPress.com.
You could try to use the sql and zip files to reconstruct your site on another self-hosted WordPress site.It is not an easy process. You could try to post your issue at
https://wordpress.org/support/
to see whether others have experience with the same.Hope this helps
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