WP Staging Restore is a standalone PHP script that extracts and restores your .wpstg backups without a working WordPress installation. You upload one file to your server, open it in the browser, and it runs on its own.
- Developer and Agency
- Runs without WordPress
- One PHP file
- Restore a full backup to a site that no longer boots.
- Migrate a website to another server.
- Unpack a backup and pull out individual files or database data, instead of restoring everything.
- Set up a fresh WordPress installation and restore a backup into it on a brand new server.
After you download
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Save the file
The download is tied to the license key you entered, so keep it to yourself.
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Upload it to your site
Put it in the root folder, the one that holds
wp-config.php. -
Open it in the browser
example.com/wpstg-restore.php
The documentation walks through running the script, including a video: How to use WP Staging Restore. To control which files and database tables it touches, see the filter configuration guide.
Prefer the command line? WP Staging CLI does the same job as a single binary on macOS, Linux and Windows.