Title: Help importing old posts.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help importing old posts.

 *  [buzzbrockway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzbrockway/)
 * (@buzzbrockway)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/)
 * My blog was hacked and as a result I had to delete version 2.0.3 of WP to version
   2.3. I was unable to export my posts but I was able to download all the old data.
   Is there a way to easily import my old posts into the WP version 2.3?
 * Thanks,
    Buzz

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 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637593)
 * Did you backup the database?
 *  Thread Starter [buzzbrockway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzbrockway/)
 * (@buzzbrockway)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637742)
 * No. I have the archive folders though.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637747)
 * There is no archive folder(s) in WP. So, what do you have?
    And just for the 
   record and for the future: all your content, like posts, comments, Pages and 
   settings – are always stored in the database, never in any file(s).
 *  Thread Starter [buzzbrockway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzbrockway/)
 * (@buzzbrockway)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637755)
 * I have three folders titled 2003, 2004 and 2005. Inside those folders are 12 
   folders for each month of the year. Perhaps they are left from an old version
   of WP?
 * So the posts would be in the SQL database?
 * Thanks for the help folks.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637758)
 * Was that blog ever imported from blogger or from some other blogging tool? Those
   folders, usually, appear when that happened…
 *  Thread Starter [buzzbrockway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzbrockway/)
 * (@buzzbrockway)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637759)
 * Actually yes, I forgot that. I suppose I could just import them using the ‘import’
   function under the ‘manage’ menu option?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637762)
 * Maybe… however, they contain ONLY the posts that were in that old blogging tool.
   Nothing made with WordPress!
 *  Thread Starter [buzzbrockway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzzbrockway/)
 * (@buzzbrockway)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-old-posts/#post-637873)
 * Looks like I’m screwed. I can import the old ‘blogger’ posts but these hackers
   corrupted my WP database. Luckily, the Wayback Machine at archive.org has quite
   a bit of my more recent posts, but I’ll have to do that by hand.
 * Thanks for the information folks.

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