Know How to Extract “wpress” Archives Generated by All-in-One WP Migration Plugin

Overview:

Being the biggest CMS, WordPress comes with thousands of pre-built themes and plugins. Among these, All-in-One WP Migration is an excellent plugin that makes moving between hosting providers simple. It enables you to migrate your website in a few easy steps.

On the other hand, if you do not have the premium version, the website restoration procedure becomes blocked either at the start or the finish.

It is among the most typical issues that a lot of WordPress users deal with. You can access those files without utilizing the plugin by following this guide, which will assist you in manually extracting the archive.

Prerequisites:

You need tohave SSH access enabled on the server. Additionally, if you have hosted your websites or apps with us, you can restore your “wpress” archive through the Linux terminal.

Let’s understand the steps:

• First use SSH to connect to a remote server.
• Then, upload the “wpress” file either through FTP or from the File Manager in cPanel.
• Navigate to the directory where you have uploaded the file and run the command given below:

npx wpress-extract <file_name>

• After execution of the above command, you will get to see the bar that will signify the restoration process. After it has loaded fully, you will get to know a folder with WordPress files.
• This way, the plugin will extract the contents of the “wp-content” directory with the site’s database. To restore the website, you will need to install WordPress and then replace its “wp-content” you got from the restoration.
• One of the easiest ways is to rename the folder to “wp-content”, delete the new WordPress you install, and then move it there.
• In the last step, you need to clean the new WordPress database and import the SQL you got from the “wpress” archive.

You can do that either using phpMyAdmin, or the terminal using this tutorial. And that’s it!