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Guides to restoring a site from the Wayback Machine
What the archive keeps, how to bring a site back into WordPress on its original URLs, and what to do with the pages it lost. Written by the operator of a restoration service, from the checks I run on every site.
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Wayback Machine to WordPress, step by step
Check the archive, pick the snapshots, download the original files, rebuild on the same URLs and decide what every missing address answers.
Learn more →What the Wayback Machine can’t restore
The database, users, forms, search, private pages and missing files: why each one is not in the archive and what to do instead.
Learn more →How much a Wayback restoration costs
Prices by route, what drives them, the costs that are not on the price list and how to compare quotes.
Learn more →Website gone and no backup?
Where a lost site survives and in which order to check: the domain, the hosting company, your own files, cloud storage and web archives.
Learn more →How to restore an expired domain
Check the domain’s history, list the pages its links point to, restore them on the original URLs and clean up what belonged to the previous owner.
Learn more →301 vs 410 for missing pages
What every address the archive lost should answer, why not to send them to the homepage, and how to set it up in WordPress.
Learn more →Three ways to bring back a site
A download tool, a restoration service or a rebuild by hand, and six questions to ask any provider.
Learn more →Rather have it done? Every order starts with a free audit of what the archive holds.