Proper approach to moving complete site from one domain to another AND preserve widgets

There are some instances of serialized data in the database, notably in things like widget options, that become invalidated if you do a blind search-and-replace without accounting for different string lengths. You might try a tool like this one to do a search and replace that also handles serialized data: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

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