Title: Changing no posts
Last modified: February 25, 2023

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# Changing no posts

 *  Resolved [thepeoplesmovies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepeoplesmovies/)
 * (@thepeoplesmovies)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-no-posts/)
 * Hi there I was changing the theme (viral) of my site [http://www.thepeoplesmovies.com](http://www.thepeoplesmovies.com),
   followed the prompts dowloaded the plugins and demo installer and now all my 
   posts have disappeared, can’t find them on my dashboard at all, not sure what
   to do , anyone can help or advice? I’ve contacted my webhost for help still waiting,
 * thank you in advance
 * Paul
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fchanging-no-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-no-posts/#post-16506417)
 * > … followed the prompts dowloaded the plugins and demo installer…
 * If you run some theme’s “demo installer” plugin, then it may have done exactly
   what the name says: installed the theme’s demo site on your site. There’s no “
   undo” button for this.
 * Normally, such “demo installers” would merely import the demo data on top of 
   the existing site, leaving all old content intact. But as you say you can’t find
   any of your content in the dashboard at all, then this theme’s “demo installer”
   may have reset your site completely before installing its demo data.
 * Your best bet is to restore a backup of your site taken before you run this theme’s“
   demo installer”… if you have such a backup. If you don’t run a backup plugin 
   to backup your site yourself, wait to hear from your host to see if they can 
   restore your site/account to an earlier state for you.
 * If you have no backup at all, and, indeed, your content is indeed not in the 
   dashboard at all (ie they’re not merely missing from the front site), then, I’m
   afraid, you may have to start over.
 * Good luck!
 *  Thread Starter [thepeoplesmovies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepeoplesmovies/)
 * (@thepeoplesmovies)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-no-posts/#post-16507039)
 * Thanks George for your advice, I’m waiting for Webhost to help with back up as
   I’m not the best at using back ups to restore, fingers crossed. Another option
   is starting again as you and whilst uploading new stuff, in the background maybe
   using the google option to go back to old posts copy and pasting, I know take
   me forever I won’t upload them all, but at last resort i’m willing to post those
   or a selection of the old posts
 *  Thread Starter [thepeoplesmovies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepeoplesmovies/)
 * (@thepeoplesmovies)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-no-posts/#post-16509246)
 * All sorted, now apart from a few posts. It was a malicious code within a theme(
   Viral News) that triggered the problem, webhost sorted it within minutes.
 * I’ve been able to get the posts lost from cached versions on google. got them
   all apart from one post not sure how to get that back, anyone does know do let
   me know
 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-no-posts/#post-16509328)
 * > got them all apart from one post not sure how to get that back, anyone does
   > know do let me know
 * Try the **Internet Archive’s _Way Back Machine_**: [https://archive.org/web/](https://archive.org/web/)
 *  Thread Starter [thepeoplesmovies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepeoplesmovies/)
 * (@thepeoplesmovies)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-no-posts/#post-16509339)
 * Superstar, got it thanks George for your advice

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