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Mabye you have no use for this but it's exactly what I would like to do with a messed up old wordpress site I've inherited. It needs revamping and the best way to deal with that is to save the posts and start fresh.
"it's exactly what I would like to do..."
Hi eosp. This (reviving old blogs, wasting as little time as possible) is one of the topics that I will cover in the following posts. Stay tuned. In the meantime, if you have specific questions/needs/doubts about how to proceed, please write them here and I'll do my best to cover them in the follow-up post.
Marco
Hi eosp. This (reviving old blogs, wasting as little time as possible) is one of the topics that I will cover in the following posts. Stay tuned. In the meantime, if you have specific questions/needs/doubts about how to proceed, please write them here and I'll do my best to cover them in the follow-up post.
Marco
I'll grant you, most WordPress installations are pretty rock solid and don't require such extreme measures to retrieve data, but if you've ever had a hosting provider suddenly go bust on you, you have no idea the difficulty in retrieving data. Trust me! I actually had to parse several *years* worth of posts once because a host I was using just suddenly shut down and would only give me the flat output from a MySQL database as my "backup".
As a complement to ryumanou's comment, I would like to point out a couple of things.
First, there are many reasons why a blog, or any other website, may completely disappear from the Net, that have NOTHING to do with the reliability of the software used and/or the professionalism and financial solidity of the hosting provider. Please note that I did NOT say in the post that these were the reasons why that particular blog disappeared (and in case you're wondering, no, it wasn't my friend's fault, or decision
).
Apart from that, most of the potential users of a trick like this would not adopt it for actual data recovery, that is because their blog is "lost" for whatever reason. They will do it because they need that content, that may very well be still online, in formats that are ready to reuse in other ways. See my next post for more.
First, there are many reasons why a blog, or any other website, may completely disappear from the Net, that have NOTHING to do with the reliability of the software used and/or the professionalism and financial solidity of the hosting provider. Please note that I did NOT say in the post that these were the reasons why that particular blog disappeared (and in case you're wondering, no, it wasn't my friend's fault, or decision
).Apart from that, most of the potential users of a trick like this would not adopt it for actual data recovery, that is because their blog is "lost" for whatever reason. They will do it because they need that content, that may very well be still online, in formats that are ready to reuse in other ways. See my next post for more.
Janitorman,
A bit too vague, you are. "I don't picture ANYONE doing this" could be, and has been said, about practically everything that is done with computers, starting from that CEO that said there would be no market for more than 5 computers in the world.
May I ask you what do you mean, exactly, by "I don't picture ANYONE doing this"? Do you mean that nobody would ever need to do such a data recovery operation, or that nobody would do it in this way?
Thanks,
Marco
A bit too vague, you are. "I don't picture ANYONE doing this" could be, and has been said, about practically everything that is done with computers, starting from that CEO that said there would be no market for more than 5 computers in the world.
May I ask you what do you mean, exactly, by "I don't picture ANYONE doing this"? Do you mean that nobody would ever need to do such a data recovery operation, or that nobody would do it in this way?
Thanks,
Marco
"why not load it back onto a new blog instance?"
for the reasons explained at the beginning of the post, not to mention its very title. The point never was to **restore** that blog, or any other WordPress blog. It was to **recover** the text of all its posts, and (almost) nothing else, in forms that would be reusable in other ways.
for the reasons explained at the beginning of the post, not to mention its very title. The point never was to **restore** that blog, or any other WordPress blog. It was to **recover** the text of all its posts, and (almost) nothing else, in forms that would be reusable in other ways.
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