Restoring wordpress site from wayback machine?

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Hello,

Looking to rebuild a site from a previous wayback machine image. The site snapshot was made in wordpress, so I'd like to use the same CMS.

I'm currently downloading the snapshot - do I need to do anything special in order to restore the site, or just SFTP the downloaded snapshot into my wordpress directory?

I've tried to search for information but all I see is paid services.

Thanks for your time
 
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I don't think it's that easy. Last time I tried I had to set the same perma links structure and then do all posts manually with those salvaged content and images.
 
dont work that way.

you download a snapshot but you only get the javascript files and html files .

you can only run it as it as been downloaded
it will only run as a html file and does not run with anythink wordpress related...

you can not download the wordpress database info and needed php files to plug into wordpress....
 
Unfortunately that's not how it works. WordPress engine is written mainly in PHP, which runs on the server and generates HTML files (response) to you that can be viewed in your browser, and which you are trying to download. But the downloaded static files will not work as WP, however they may be accessible and readable if you also have all the CSS files and images. But I think the best approach would be to setup a completely new wordpress site, find out which theme they used, install it, and rewrite the articles from the archive, while paying attention to match the original articles url.
 
Thanks for your replies, I figured it wouldn't be as straightforward as I thought. Does anyone have any recommendations of services?
 
frzs90 said:
Unfortunately that's not how it works. WordPress engine is written mainly in PHP, which runs on the server and generates HTML files (response) to you that can be viewed in your browser, and which you are trying to download. But the downloaded static files will not work as WP, however they may be accessible and readable if you also have all the CSS files and images. But I think the best approach would be to setup a completely new wordpress site, find out which theme they used, install it, and rewrite the articles from the archive, while paying attention to match the original articles url.
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if it for pbn purpose just make sure it has mobile responsive css just change some url poiting to your main website.

does that sound right if you dont want to go down the wp route?
 
try this be fun
https://htmltowordpress.io

it what you need convert html to WordPress theme.

there only one other way use a app like unbounce and design the same theme as oregnal and place all pics and articles back in it from your download .
 
please make sure the new wp created website has no javascript odd code to steel your traffic or keyboard sniffing ....

good luck
 
It can be a very tough process and there are a lot of tasks to do.
I was using waybackrebuilder.com and it was helping a lot.
 
No way, Just copy content from archive.org and past content in your new site..
 
Just a hint: Make sure to edit the sitemap and include the restored HTML pages !!
 
redarrow said:
https://themble.com/bones/

info on it
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/making-a-theme-with-bones-getting-started--wp-26545

another free way to do it

gd luck
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How and this exact theme is helpful for reusing a wayback machine backup ?
 
3bdou said:
Just a hint: Make sure to edit the sitemap and include the restored HTML pages !!
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Did you just crawl out of the wayback machine to post on this 5 year old thread?

If somebody wants to restore a website into WP, you first scrape the entire archived website and save locally as html using Newspaper for Python or cheerio for NodeJs, take the extracted content you want and using Wordpress API crew new posts/pages from your local copy. It’s really simple to script.
 
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