Partial Restore from Export?

  • Resolved jollydonky

    (@jollydonky)


    8 months, 4 weeks ago

    I have been using Tools/Export for a few years, and save the results in my backup folder.
    (I also have an UpDraftPlus backup)
    Is there a way to restore a single Page from a backup that I accidentally deleted from my site? I can re-create the page from scratch (I have a PDF to refer to) but I just thought I would ask if you can use a backup for something like that.

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  • Moderator threadi

    (@threadi)

    8 months, 4 weeks ago

    First of all: are you sure that the page has really been deleted? When deleting pages, WordPress first uses a trash can where the pages remain for a few weeks. If it is there, you just need to restore it from there.

    Otherwise, there are many options for restoration. However, all of them are rather complicated:

    • If you use UpdraftPlus and have a current backup there, first check whether a partial restoration is possible.
    • If you only have the export XML, you can try to find the content manually and recreate it on your website. To do this, you need to open the XML in a plain text program (such as Notepad++) and locate the content there.
    • You could also try a plugin such as WP All Import to see if it recognizes the XML format and offers you a way to import it. I have never tried it myself. Instructions: https://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/importing-an-xml-or-csv-file/
    • Alternatively, you can hire someone to find the content from the XML for you. You can find someone like that here, for example: https://jobs.wordpress.net
    • Or (completely apart from the export XML) you can check https://web.archive.org to see if the page you deleted is listed there. Then you can copy the content from there and paste it back in manually.
    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    8 months, 4 weeks ago

    No idea if this will work, but I think it’s worth a try. Set up a temp site on https://wpsandbox.net/, import your XML file, then copy/paste the necessary stuff from there into your existing WP site.

    Thread Starter jollydonky

    (@jollydonky)

    8 months, 3 weeks ago

    I was able to re-create the article pretty easily using the guts of the PDF file I saved,
    but thank you very much for taking the time to respond!
    I just wondered if there was something easy I was missing about how backups work.

    thanks again,
    Jack

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