Manual Episode Recovery

Podlove Publisher
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Hi,

due to damaged hardware we’’ve now moved to a webhoster and had to do a fresh wordpress setup.

We’ve got the latest backup from the old system consisting of a mysql dump and a full file-system backup.

We’ve installed wordpress and in the new database, I’ve restored all wp_podlove_* tables from the backup. I’ve restored all podcast-files in the file-system ( /content ) and restored /wp-content/uploads/*

Then I did a reinstall of the podlove publisher plugin. When I click on Analytics - I can see data that looks valid, but all other settings - including the episodes - are empty.

Debug Log says:

025-09-28 17:29:01 [job] [id 147725] \“Tracking Request ID erneut hashen\” aborted because it ran too long
2025-09-28 17:30:06 [job] [id 147726] \“Download-Absichten bereinigen\” aborted because it ran too long
2025-09-28 17:31:01 [job] [id 147727] \“Zusammenfassung der Downloads\” aborted because it ran too long
2025-09-28 17:38:24 [job] [id 147728] \“Download-Absichten bereinigen\” aborted because it ran too long

..but looks otherwise empty as well.

What am I missing? Any chance for recovering our feed?

Cheers,

Manuel

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wp_podlove_* is not enough. The core episode data is in wp_posts. Without that, there are no episdes. There are also various settings stored in wp_options.

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Thanks Eric - I’ve just restored the complete db and everything looks fine now.

Does it make any difference if do install podlove publisher before or after the db-restore?

Thanks,

Manuel

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Good :slight_smile: Does not make a difference, works both ways.