Importing WordPress site from backup
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Hello everyone,
I have a question regarding importing WordPress sites from backup. I have an old site backup in .xml files and a .zip file of the website folder from the server and I am trying to rebuild the site locally on my computer.
I managed to import the pages using the WordPress importer and then just copied the wp-contents folder to include the images, and the website was imported.
When I was checking the contents of the .xml files I noticed they contain references to the Elementor plugin, which when I checked was also in the contents of the old website folder, so I figured I could install that to se what the page actually looked like. When I installed the plugin and opened one of the imported pages, it definetely looked better, but I noticed that images and also text content were gone. Thinking that plugin must alreday present when doing the import, i deleted the pages and imported them again, but with no success.
So my question is, is it possible to import the pages this way and still get the full functionality with Elementor blocks? I noticed that you can also export and import pages using Elementor plugin, but the exported .zip file is different than what I have, so I think importing pages with Elementor is not an option. Are there any other possible ways to import my page with all the content and funtionallity?
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It would be best to approach Elementor support for this. Sometimes the issue happens due to mismatched site URLs in image optimizer.
https://elementor.com/help/troubleshooting-mismatched-url/
Your issue may or may not be related to this.
If the number of images are not too many, you can try manually fixing them by editing the post, and browsing to the correct image in the media library.
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