<?php // generate instructions text file $wpTM_it = ""; $wpTM_it .= "__________________________________________________________________________________"; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." wpTimeMachine, version: ".wpTimeMachineVersion." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"."__________________________________________________________________________________"; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." These steps are recommendations, if you have a better way to "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." handle restoration, consider sharing that in the forums, here: "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." http://wordpress.org/tags/wp-time-machine?forum_id=10 "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." If you get stuck that's also a good place to search for help "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"."__________________________________________________________________________________"; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Step 1) "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Get your old version of WordPress in place: "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." ".wp_installer_url.$format." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Uncompress that file after downloading it & then upload "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." it to the 'old' location where you had WordPress before. "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Just like when you first set up WordPress, you will need "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." to make a copy of wp-config-sample.php called wp-config.php "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." and update that file with your database information. Unless "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." you manually backed this up -- which would've been a good "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." idea. "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Step 2) "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." If you had a .htaccess file in use, copy wpTimeMachine-htaccess.txt to: "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." http://yourdomain.com/.htaccess "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Step 3) "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Rename the WordPress folder called wp-content to something "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." like wp-content-blank-slate. "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Uncompress wpTimeMachine-content-files".$format." & double check "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." the directory structure, which should look like: "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." wp-content/ "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." plugins/ "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." themes/ "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." uploads/ "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." (There may be other files in there, too.) "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Upload wp-content into your WordPress folder from Step 1 ... "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." wp-content should be at the same directory level as "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." wp-content-blank-slate "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Step 4) "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Uncompress wpTimeMachine-data-files.sql.gz ... "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." This will create a .sql file which can be used to restore all "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." of your data. "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." Use the same method you originally used to set up your database "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." to get your back up in place. This most likely involved using "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." your hosting providers instance of phpMyAdmin. "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"."__________________________________________________________________________________"; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." That's it ... start testing ... "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." wpTimeMachine, version: ".wpTimeMachineVersion." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"." "; $wpTM_it .= "\n"."__________________________________________________________________________________"; $instructions_txt = $wpTM_it; ?>