Can you replace the /wp-admin directory of a WordPress installation with another one without issues?
This question is very open, but my current context is that I’m transferring a WordPress site from one server to another. I’ve just come to download the site via FTP, and the /wp-admin folder has disappeared. (I probably did something wrong, but I did not knowingly delete the folder). I have a development version of the site, and am wondering if it will cause problems to just use the /wp-admin from that.
Has anyone come up against a similar thing before, and does anybody know if this folder is generic?
You need to replace the folder with one of the same version. See http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions
There are, of course, updates and bug fixes along the way in many, but not all, versions, and a copy of
wp-adminof a version not the same as the rest of the install will break things.Check the file
version.phpinwp-includesto find the version of your WordPress install. (version.phpis not inwp-admin). And file modification dates are not a reliable way to check versions.)See https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/ for all versions.
As long as no modifications to the core of WordPress have been done, you should be fine, but make sure that the wp-admin folder you’re uploading belongs to the same WordPress version your website is running. You should face no issues at all.
Firstly, if you did have a Dreamweaver then try to search a word ‘wp-admin’ in Entire Website Folder in the search’s Dreamweaver option.
Secondly, change all text that contain a word ‘wp-admin’.
Third, change the folder’s name.
Then test your wordpress, if there are errors so try to solve it or post a comment.