Know How to Extract “wppress” Archives Created by the All-in-One WP Migration Plugin

A solution to make the process of backing up or moving a WordPress website easier is the All-in-One WP Migration plugin. With its easy-to-use interface, users can export all aspect of their WordPress website—including media assets, themes, plugins, databases, and settings—into a single archive file. Usually, this archive file is saved with the suffix “.wpress.”

Most WordPress users deal with this issue on a daily basis. One of the keys to the success of your WordPress website is choosing the appropriate WordPress hosting platform. This is a useful post that will explain how to manually extract the archive and make those files accessible without the need for a plugin.

In order to perform the steps, you should have Node.js working perfectly. As, you will need SSH access enabled. You can immediately restore your “wppress” archive through the Linux terminal.

Now, let’s go through the steps:

First step is to connect through SSH 

Then, upload the “wppress” files either through FTP or from the file manager in cPanel.

Scroll down and go to the directory where you want to upload the file and run the below command

npx wpress-extract <file_name>

Following the command execution, a progress bar indicating the restoration process will appear. Additionally, you will notice a folder containing all of the WordPress files after it has fully loaded.
Then comes the difficult part. The plugin extracts the contents of the “wp-content” directory with the sites databases. In order to restore the site, you will have to install a new WordPress and then replace its “wp-content” with one you got from the restoration.

The easy way to do this is, by renaming the folder to “wp-content,” delete the one from the new WordPress you installed and then move it there.

Lastly, you need to clean the WordPress database and import the SQL you got from the “wpress” archive. And that’s it! This is how you can restore your site successfully with the All-in-One Migration plugin.

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