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Help!
I’m confused. Have never taken over a site before. Have only created from scratch. I want to update, but don’t want to lose the current pages.
How do I backup my site files if I don’t know where they are hosted?
How do I find out where they are hosted?
The sites are unpublished and unfinished. Are they hosted?
(I’m looking into using FileZilla, but idk if I’ll figure that out before one if you can answer.)
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You can use a free plugin to backup complete website.
There are a lot of questions in your post. What is it that you want to achive.
All of these are questions the client should be answering for you.
>The sites are unpublished and unfinished. Are they hosted?
Point your browser at the URL you have. If it’s hosted you will see the site.
Login as admin. In WP settings it should tell you the URL for your site. That should give you a clue. If that’s not enough, look up your URL [here](https://dnsquery.org/). It will tell you where it’s hosted. Although this all seems a bit redundant because you should already know this if you can login there.
In WP tools you can do a full export of all files. You also need to backup the database (from your host) because just having files is not a full backup.
Now please tell me you’re talking about self hosted wordpress, not wordpress.com which is a whole different thing.
[https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/security/backup/](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/security/backup/)
>How do I backup my site files if I don’t know where they are hosted?
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>How do I find out where they are hosted?
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>The sites are unpublished and unfinished. Are they hosted?
If you can see them and you’re not hosting them on your computer, they’re hosted somewhere.
Do you have admin access? If you do, install the plugin Updraft Plus, download a copy of all the files and database, and upload them to a host of your choice.
If you have admin access, you may do well to hire a local developer to do this for you – it should be a pretty quick and cheap job, as you don’t seem to know how to sort any of this. I’d also consider keeping them on a small retainer for any maintenance that needs doing.
If you do try to do it yourself, whatever you do, don’t use GoDaddy.
Out of interest, obviously someone has set the ball in motion here – is there any reason you’re not asking them about this?