I can't access my site

Your entries (posts and pages) are stored in and retrieved from the database, which would be where your site was (is) hosted.

If you still have access to your hosting account, use whatever database tool their control panel offers to export the database.

Hi 2nineminer2, thanks for your reply.

My site was/is hosted by Godaddy. But when I downloaded all the site prior to revamping the site, I could not find any of my blog entries. I called Godaddy and they mentioned they don’t have a back up of it.

No blog databases are kept with my WordPress?

Also, I found the fitness-blog folder when I downloaded my old site. But I can’t find any of my old blogs. Any idea if these files help in recovering my blog?

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Tony, as 2Nine said, the posts are stored in a MySQL database, which resides on the server. That’s how WordPress works.

If you move WordPress to another server, you have to move the database with it. If you didn’t copy/migrate the database to the new server, and you cancelled the old hosting account, and you don’t have a backup, you may have lost your posts.

What do you mean when you say you have “revamped everything to a new site”? Did you do a proper WordPress migration? It sounds like you just moved the site files, without the database.

How did you get all the content from the old site? Many of the backup plugins will also dump the database if you choose a ‘complete’ backup.

The database dump is usually stored as a ‘.sql’ file along with your other files on the site.

@tony979 –

The database for any WordPress site is not, I say again, not, in any file in the file system on the hosting account (server). It is in a database which is located in another area of your hosting account, and one accesses is with the hosting account’s database admin tool, generally, a brand name tool named phpMyAdmin.

You mention that the site was/is hosted on GD. To create an export file, as Patty and vtxyzzy point out, you would have had to use the database admin tool in your GD hosting control panel to do so and download it to your computer.

If you still have access to your GD hosting control panel, then log in, find the database tool and export the database. Refer to GD’s help/support (Google it) for the exact procedure as it relates to your particular hosting account plan (older plans have a “home-rolled” hosting control panel as opposed to the newer Linux ones which now use a popular brand of hosting control panel, namely cPanel (a brand name, BTW).