One simple way to do this would be to use actual merge tags in your content. This can be done with the Gravity Forms Post Content Merge Tags plugin and also supports a global merge tags feature so you can fetch the entry data by the field label (without the field ID). https://gravitywiz.com/documentation/gravity-forms-post-content-merge-tags/#global-merge-tags
Got it…took all day, but now finally I can finally sleep. This solution is for a set of databases that reside on the same server, even if they are in different accounts. Thus you do not need to set the remote server access in the CPanel. The key is to find the user name and … Read more
You should have not searched the field and replaced all the references to wp_ with anything. For example : the value of the entry with meta_key wp_page_for_privacy_policy will be change to wp_addtionnal_prefix page_for_privacy_policy. Hence there could be a lot of misfitted values in your table. A better way would have been to : export the … Read more
Option 1: backup – Many hosts offer backups. Sometimes you have to pay for them, but often even when you do, they’ve actually been backing everything up and paying just allows you to access them. Worth checking as this will be fastest. Option 2: post listing screen – If these posts all had only 1 … Read more
Your code worked absolutely fine for me, so I suspected you forgot to flush the rewrite rules. Each time after you added code which alters the WordPress rewrite rules, e.g. add_rewrite_rule() or code which registers/un-registers a CPT or custom taxonomy with URL rewriting enabled, you should always flush the rewrite rules which means WordPress will … Read more
@Ooker It’s the Jetpack that is serving you the images on https. If you’d turn off the Photon add-on from Jetpack you should be able to get images served over http from your own server. Also if you turn off Photon, images won’t be served from CDN anymore, so you might have to figure that … Read more
You can (and should) use the existing database connection by accessing global $wpdb. The simplest way to use it is with the get_results() method: global $wpdb; $results = $wpdb->get_results( ‘SELECT * FROM my_table’ ); There’s other methods available, and things you need to consider like preparing queries and using the correct table prefix (if your … Read more
Most of the space in that table in your case is taken by the overhead. 919MB is full size, with 885MB of overhead. Overhead is caused by the storage and index write operations in the MyISAM database engine storage. You can run this query to clear overhead: OPTIMIZE TABLE `wpwn_posts` Or, you can convert all … Read more
To query a second database you can use the wpdb object like explained here. This can be a local or extern database. You don’t need to create a plugin.
If the previous posts are a service supported by WordPress’ importer you could try using that. https://wordpress.org/support/article/importing-content/ If that doesn’t support your previous blog service you could try WP All Import http://www.wpallimport.com/ I’ve used both of these methods with pretty good success.