Redesigning a largish (70 pages, 300 blog posts) WordPress site – w/issues

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  puggsville · Member · Feb 2, 2018 at 8:48 pm

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  Hello folks…

  So I inherited a poorly maintained WordPress site with a heavily hacked DIVI theme, and it’s time to pick a better theme — and especially more modern design/UX.

  The pages are a mess, the database is a mess, the media library is a mess, the CSS is insane. While experienced in frameworks and custom HTML/CSS, my WordPress experience is not extensive.

  What is the best practice for preserving the blog post history, structure and content while trashing everything else and starting over with a new theme and pages/IA? Is this possible?

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  avydun · Staff · Feb 3, 2018 at 3:55 am

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  Hi!

  As a first step, please share your site link. I can answer further with that information.

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  puggsville · Member · Feb 5, 2018 at 4:33 pm

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  This is a general best practices question, not specific to a particular site.

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  khainhero · Member · Feb 5, 2018 at 5:52 pm

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  Hello 👋

  You can do an export and then just import the data again.

  Export Your Website’s Content

  Hope this helps

  Thank you,
  – F.T

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 5, 2018 at 5:56 pm

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  Hello there @puggsville, the reason we ask for the site URL is that this support forum assists users of WordPressdotcom hosted sites and the guidance provided here may not be relevant to DIY WordPress.org sites hosted with an external hosting provider (e.g. Bluehost, Go Daddy etc.).

  If you need help with a site using the open source WP (org) project you can find it at https://wordpress.org/support For more information on the differences: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  avydun · Staff · Feb 5, 2018 at 6:16 pm

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  Thanks for chipping in here for me, justjennifer. 🙂

  puggsville, if you would share your site link, we can help better.