Attempting to fiddle with and migrate my WordPress install to a new host but same domain name has gone completely pear-shaped. Please hope me. I was hosting wordpress on newsite.cc/wp-admin but the host for everything was on oldsite.cc. I wanted to retire oldsite and bring everything to newsite. But while futzing with the theme I managed to somehow cause every page except the main index to load blank, including the WP login and admin pages. I don't know how that's possible since I was just editing the theme's CSS and functions, but it happened. I can still (even now) see all the WP files on my old host (on Namecheap, in cpanel's file manager).
I figured, OK it's as good a time as any to migrate to a fresh install on newsite/blog/wp-admin. But because I didn't have WP access I just backed up the whole directory from the file manager.
I removed the newsite domain from oldsite in cpanel and loaded up a new WP on the newsite cpanel. Here I learn that importing a WP install requires a special export process that produces a WXR file among other things.
I'm not sure what to do next. The data is all still there on my old server. But I can't log in to export it properly. I can't just drop in the files and hope WP makes sense of it on the new install since I'm sure there will be all kinds of configuration errors.
I do want to bring in all the old content. I don't care about the theme and styles and plugins etc, I can redo that. Is there a way to take the raw data and make a new WP install use it? Or should I wipe the new WP and try to get back into the old one somehow? I just don't know what's possible or recommended here.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
I figured, OK it's as good a time as any to migrate to a fresh install on newsite/blog/wp-admin. But because I didn't have WP access I just backed up the whole directory from the file manager.
I removed the newsite domain from oldsite in cpanel and loaded up a new WP on the newsite cpanel. Here I learn that importing a WP install requires a special export process that produces a WXR file among other things.
I'm not sure what to do next. The data is all still there on my old server. But I can't log in to export it properly. I can't just drop in the files and hope WP makes sense of it on the new install since I'm sure there will be all kinds of configuration errors.
I do want to bring in all the old content. I don't care about the theme and styles and plugins etc, I can redo that. Is there a way to take the raw data and make a new WP install use it? Or should I wipe the new WP and try to get back into the old one somehow? I just don't know what's possible or recommended here.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!