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I had Publii on previous Windows 10 OS. It crashed with blue screen of death but I managed to recover whole Publii directory from it from AppData folder. Now, my blog is still online, with all files on AWS S3 bucket. Im just curious if I can "import" current online blog somehow in new Publii installation on new Windows 10 so I can just continue making posts. |
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Yes, just move your old directory in the new one (hell, your old one might still be there). See: https://getpublii.com/docs/publii-global-settings.html#fileslocation |
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Gotcha! So you have a directory for the Publii app, but not for your Publii sites. Unfortunately, you need that entire site folder (including, more importantly, the What is sent to your server is the generated site output (HTML, CSS, JS). That will remain online, but the input files that Publii needs to edit and generate your site are different (sqlite database, handlebars files, stylesheets, js, json, theme files, etc.). |
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So if understood, Im done? Only way is to make blog again from scratch? |
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If you 1000% cannot find your site files, unfortunately, yes. If you have a ton of posts, you might have some luck finding a tool which can convert your live site's RSS feed into a Wordpress site archive (WXR), and then importing the Wordpress site into Publii using Publii's importer.
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I only have landing page. ABOUT ME page and CONTACT ME page. No posts. I am not sure if it will work like that? |
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@gurubyte To be honest - for such simple website I think that manual reproducing the content in Publii will be fastest solution |
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@gurubyte - unfortunately without having a backup of your source files (input folder), there is no easy way to reproduce a website. @candidexmedia - has a good idea with WP Importer. I can also advice for some better approach - ask ChatGPT or similar tool to write for you a simple crawler which will generate WXR file based on your website sitemap.xml (RSS feed won't contain all subpages). You can specify in your prompt which elements contains content and titles. |
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Okay, will try. And what to do then with that WXR file? How to inport it in Publii? What to do after that? |
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@gurubyte in other thread I have suggested that in my opinion flow with WXR file is unnecessary - the easier way is to reproduce the subpages manually. Flow with WXR makes sense if you have bigger amount of posts |
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Yea, okay got it. Lesson learned. Back up everything. :)) thanks for help |
I agree with what was said about just copy-pasting, but for reference, to answer this question: you would use the WordPress import tool:
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I came here after logging into my second workstation, thinking I could install Publii, import my site from GitHub, make changes, and push those changes. Has there been any thought about shipping the input folder to remote repositories? Specifically, git? Deployment can be handled by whatever service you use, github, gitlab or onedev etc to ensure those files don't reach the deployment server and are publically available? Do people store their input files in another git repository? Or on Google Drive? |
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My PC is backed up by pCloud (lifetime one-time fee), and I can access all my files from my phone, other PCs, etc. I'd use a cloud service that can be installed as its own "drive" on your workstations. |
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Sure, that works. But if you already have a git repository, wouldn't it make more sense to be hold everything for a site on the git repository? |
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I guess? 🤷🏿♀️ I think it's been mentioned on this forum before... I'm mentioning using a cloud service because that's what the Publii docs suggest for multi-computer use: https://getpublii.com/docs/publii-on-multiple-computers-via-dropbox.html |
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I sync 2 Macs using Resilio Sync, so I have a real time backup of all my Publii sites (and all my other files, too). So I can work on my blogs with my Mac mini at my desk or at my Macbook in the sun :-) . The only important thing is to quit Puublii on the machine you are not using. In addition I sync to a NAS using Resilio Sync. |
Ah, that makes more sense. That works; use whatever provider you want for Cloud storage. Thanks.
I'll probably have to do something similar. I've only got one site, and wanted to keep it all on a git repository and checkout the site when I need to edit it. Thanks. |
@gurubyte - unfortunately without having a backup of your source files (input folder), there is no easy way to reproduce a website. @candidexmedia - has a good idea with WP Importer. I can also advice for some better approach - ask ChatGPT or similar tool to write for you a simple crawler which will generate WXR file based on your website sitemap.xml (RSS feed won't contain all subpages). You can specify in your prompt which elements contains content and titles.