can you still access the old site at all?
if so can you install a plugin to take a database backup?
I can’t access anything. All my old host would do for me was provide me with a database backup of everything I’ve uploaded to the site. So I have all the WordPress installs, I just want to know if my posts are gone forever.
I’m confused. first it sounds like you have the file backup, now it sounds you say you have the database backup. If you only have one of these; explain to them that you need the other. If the person you were dealing with before at the hosting company wasn’t helpful perhaps they didn’t realise what you needed.
All they can give me, according to their support team, is a backup of my files. Which they did. I apologize for the use of the word “database.” I have the folders for the wordpress installation, and what I’m wondering is, if the posts are backed up into an SQL there, or just on the server.
you need either a database backup to get your posts back. This would be outside of the site files. Unless you asked specifically for this they may not have known that you required it. Ask them again clearly stating that you would like a backup of the database.
Okay, I have received a SQL backup. Is it just a simple upload to my new hosts server? How do I go about it? Thanks for all your help thus far.
First thing – are you using exactly the same domain name pointing at your new server as you had pointing at the old one?
If so, and you have set up a database on your new host already, go into your hosting control panel and import the database backup using PHPmyAdmin or whatever tool is provided by your new hosting company.
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup
Then edit your wp-config.php with the correct connection details for the new database.
