Title: Access content
Last modified: May 6, 2019

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# Access content

 *  [mornedj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mornedj/)
 * (@mornedj)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-content/)
 * Hi all, thanks for reading and perhaps assisting. Please note that I have a rudementary
   understanding of programming, and little of databases. At best I can do a mean
   google search … This is a long post, if in a hurry, skip to the last two paragraphs.
 * I messed up my website. Completely. I updated wordpress, all worked fine. Then
   I started updating plugins, but, as I was in a hurry, I just clicked update on
   all of them, and after a while I just closed the page, not thinking again to 
   check everything. Last week some-one told me my website was not loading, so I
   checked and see that it was not working.
 * I went online, but I could not access my wp-admin page at all. So I tried doing
   a restore from a previous backup, but that also did not work. While it restored
   the blog/website, it did not display my website.
 * Then the comedy of errors started. My host allowed the installation of various
   applications, plugins etc. via the controlpanel (webonline), and I use softalicious.
 * I uninstalled WordPress, and reinstalled but in a sub-folder. It installed, but
   I could not see the new WP installation. So I uninstalled and installed in the
   root. That failed, giving me some .access error (could not overwrite the file).
   After a few retries I managed to get it installed in the root and I could see
   my new WP page on my website. I tried restoring my backup, but again I failed
   and could not access my website. So I thought to just redo the website, as it
   was long due for a new theme.
 * I previously used a company to do a website for me, but this time I thought I
   would do it myself, learning a bit in the process. So I repeated the process 
   of uninstalling and reinstalling WP, got to the Hello World stage on my website.
   Tried to install a new theme, but that failed. Tried a few more times, all fail.
   So in despiration, I contaced my web host with the error and was told that my
   website is still hosted on a-end-of-live server and that I need to migrate to
   a new server that can allow the installation of WP themes. I I agreed to the “
   upgrade”. That happened last week, and, while I can now install themes, I now
   cannot see my backup via the wordpress control-panel. I can access it via the
   file manager and did download it to my PC.
 * After spending 2 days on this I decided to just redo the website from scratch(
   it is not that big anyway). I read a bit on WAMP and a local server, but I am
   worried about recreating the database (users and passwords and names which I 
   cannot remember). I do not want to spend another day and still be out of luck.
 * So I extracted the tar.gz file and managed to get my images, but now I need to
   get to the content (my posts). But there is a million and one php files, where
   do I start getting my content ?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Faccess-content%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [webeno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webeno/)
 * (@webeno)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-content/#post-11499902)
 * Your posts are stored in the database, specifically in the `wp_posts` table. 
   There are plenty of articles out there that will help you get you through of 
   restoring your site, best is probably if you do that without any plugins or themes
   activated. I found one article that, running quickly through it, appears to help
   you in achieving just that: [https://pagely.com/blog/reset-wordpress-website-without-plugin/](https://pagely.com/blog/reset-wordpress-website-without-plugin/)
 * Note, I am not the author of the article, nor did I ever try doing what is being
   described there, so feel free to either use it or find another one that works
   better for your needs. Ultimately you will have to follow the one that works 
   best for your needs and specific skill set.
 * I hope this helps.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-content/#post-11499902)
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