What happens when you use same database with a new install of WordPress?

  • Hello,

    I have been messing up with my WordPress install. I would like to delete that and start with the scratch. Would it be fine to delete /var/www/html/wordpress folder and replace that with a new clean one. And use the same database. What are the things going to be made available to the new install by using the old database? It is a low traffic blog with 115 posts and a few comments. Blog posts and comments are all I care about.

    Thanks.

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  • As long as your config.php file references the right database you’ll be ok. It’s possible your old installation might have extra data in the database that was there for certain plugins, but the posts and comments should be ok. If you had any custom post types in the old installation, you’d need to make sure they were supported in the new one.

    Is the clean version of WordPress going to be the same version as the old one?

    Thread Starter Sudhir Khanger

    (@donniezazen)

    Thanks Matt.

    I am thinking about deploying WordPress 4.1 Beta 1 now that it’s close to the release. I had no custom types. I could also simply export and import my post/comments too. That is another option.

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