WordPress reinstall approach

  • I need to reinstall my wordpress site, but I want to keep my articles and uploaded media. Themes, plugins and so on must NOT be saved.

    I know there are a bunch of articles on how to re-install wordpress and how to backup your data. But none om them fits my needs. Most of them assumes a bunch of things like having PHPMyAdmin or even being able to access the wordpress via HTTP.

    I’d like to do a more basic re-install, using CLI. I use a manually installed wordpress on Linux/Apache on a standalone server. This is my plan:

    1. Backup the database using mysqldump.
    2. Backup the complete wordpress installation (web root and all sub directories). The main thing I need here are the uploaded media files.
    3. Wipe the server completly, re-installing new operating system, then web server and wordpress
    4. Importing the old database, that should give me my articles text back.
    5. Put the uploaded media files in the right folder. That should give me the images in the articles back.

    What do you think. Will this work?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    That should work. Be sure to have all the files in place before you reimport the database so everything’s in place the first time you access the site.

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