1st step: clear yourself about how you want to retain the existing content. For example: a contact page on website1.com might be having /contact/ permalink and on website2.com the permalink could be same. So, when you migrate /contact/ from website2 to website1, what do you want WP to do if not overwrite then, it changes/appends … Read more
From the official developers: “The site stats are maintained by wordpress.com, not your own site, therefore, there is no way to delete old stats”
Technically, a WGET can be used to download a site’s page(s) to your local machine. Then, you could theoretically upload those files to your own web server, and the results will look like the original site. But only as the site existed when you WGET’d the individual pages. WordPress stores all site content in a … Read more
Cloning/replicating/copying dashboard admin settings
When working with this dev site, i did not want to give it its own domain name, it was to replace the existing server as soon as i had it running. It came down to two things. I had tried an IP here, but had forgotten to include the http://. define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://123.456.789.255’ ); define( … Read more
The easiest solution would be to use the WordPress export tool. Here you can chose a category and date range so you only export the latest ones. Posts should export with their comments too. Here is a link to the WordPress codex. http://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Export_Screen
If you used a plugin to move the site. I use WP Migration for instance. When you install the migrated version to your local environment, the plugin will change the domain to whatever your local domain is. In your case it is 127.0.0.1. The reason it does this is that many of the options are … Read more
If you have access to a Linux/Mac/Unix command line with bash, you can do the following: Export your database to an SQL file. Use sed command with -E to run regex search and replace operations on URLs that do not contain wp-content/uploads (or whichever folder contains your media) Import your SQL file to the new … Read more
The solution is to change the way the database is migrated. I was dumping it, doing a search and replace and then loading the amended database. I have discovered this breaks serialization. The solution which worked (and which I now believe is a best practice) is to dump and load the database unmodified. The use … Read more
I added this to Fiddler’s script in %USER%\Documents\Fiddler2\Scripts\CustomRules.js under OnBeforeResponse and the response rewrite started working static function OnBeforeResponse(oSession: Session) { if (m_Hide304s && oSession.responseCode == 304) { oSession[“ui-hide”] = “true”; } if (oSession.oResponse.headers.ExistsAndContains(“Content-Type”,”text/html”)){ oSession.utilDecodeResponse(); oSession.utilReplaceInResponse(‘127.0.0.3′,’my.domain.name’); oSession.utilReplaceInResponse(‘http:’,’https:’); } } and needed to set // define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://127.0.0.3/blog’); // define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://127.0.0.3/blog’); define(‘FORCE_SSL_LOGIN’,false); define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’,false); in wp-config.php In order to be … Read more