How to retrieve old Wordpress posts?

[ed79]

A couple of years ago I started a wordpress blog. Never really did much with it and when the first years hosting ended I didn't bother to renew.

Shortly before it ended I downloaded the whole site via FTP so I have a local backup of the root folder containing wp-content, wp-admin etc, and a load of .php files.

Are my old posts located somewhere inside this folder as I can't seem to find them?

 

[ed79]

IIRC on my old WP site the SQL data was stored externally.

Yes, from some googling I think this may be the issue. I used Filezilla to connect to the Bluehost account that had the WP site plus a couple of other simple HTML ones, and downloaded the lot. But it looks like the SQL was somewhere else - and as my hosting account is closed I think I've lost it.

Still, not the end of the world. Thanks both for your help.

 

[ed79]

This is basically what I have backed up but there are no .sql or .zip's inside. I think this is because I manually downloaded via FTP rather than using the backup option in cpanel?