need to access my old domain name version of website to copy content over to new domain name

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  jenschwietz · Member · Jun 8, 2017 at 6:37 pm

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  I need to access my old domain name version of website to copy content over to new domain name. The problem is I did not know what I was doing and followed some bad advice from the internet that is was just a simple matter of changing the settings for the Url in the old domain site to the new name. Now when I try to log into the wp-admin section of the old domain name It directs me to the new domain dashboard etc. Can I still access the older files? I had a copy of the version of the old website from when it was transferred from .dev to .com but I had done quite a bit of work since that version.

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jun 9, 2017 at 11:15 am

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  Hi jenschwietz,

  I need to access my old domain name version of website to copy content over to new domain name.

  What is the URL of the site you need to access? Let me know and I’ll look into it for you.

  Thanks!

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  jenschwietz · Member · Jun 9, 2017 at 2:32 pm

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  Hi gemmacevans,
  I have resolved the issue by accessing the wpconfig files in the ftp via file zilla. Thank you for your offer to look into this!

  Jen

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jun 10, 2017 at 8:33 am

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  Hi Jen,

  I have resolved the issue by accessing the wpconfig files in the ftp via file zilla.

  It sounds like you have a self hosted WordPress.org site. If you need anything else, these forums are a great place to get help:

  https://wordpress.org/support/

  I’m glad to hear you’ve got it sorted now though :)