Caveat This is extremely bad for SEO. Having duplicate content can ultimately cause your site(s) to be removed from search results. Solution This is actually pretty simple to have one database and disk content. Point both of the docroots to the same directory. Make sure each server name in your Apache config for each domain … Read more
I normally use mysqldump and sed: on old server: mysqldump -u user -p OldWpdatabase > wpdb.sql sed -i ‘s/oldurl/newurl/g’ wpdb.sql on new server: mysql -u user -p NewWpdatabase < wpdb.sql sed is used to search and replace all the hard coded occurrences of the website if needed.
I’ve just had this or a very similar problem (I didn’t use the WP export tool, but instead did a manual migration from one environment to another). As far as I can tell, the problem occurs because of how WP stores the thumbnail data in the the wp_postmeta table (with the key ‘_wp_attachment_metadata’). This data … Read more
After spending time debugging export.php, I found that we have to register post_format taxonomy for our custom post type. register_taxonomy( ‘post_format’, ‘portfolio’, array( ‘public’ => true, ‘hierarchical’ => false, ‘labels’ => array( ‘name’ => _x( ‘Format’, ‘post format’ ), ‘singular_name’ => _x( ‘Format’, ‘post format’ ), ), ‘query_var’ => true, ‘rewrite’ => $rewrite[‘post_format’], ‘show_ui’ => … Read more
I can answer my own question. Jsoup can do what I need: Extract the content (tested) Change the link for Spring (tested) Save HTML (tested), images (tested), videos (not yet tested)
This issue is as a result of your server not supporting the utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci collation type. To resolve this you should convert the collation for all tables with utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci to utf8_general_ci If you’re exporting through phpmyadmin, you can: Click the “Export” tab for the database Click the “Custom” radio button Go the section titled “Format-specific options” … Read more
It does not. It simply imports them as if they’ve always been a user.
The easiest way is to use the Cache Image plugin, which ‘sideloads’ images in your posts that are from other domains. I’ve had mixed results, mainly because it seems to not work well for thousands of posts and images – if your site is smaller you may have better results.
This is how I would do it: Log into “other organization” install All In One WP Migration make a copy of your site download said copy In site.com Create a directory called acquiredpages install a blank copy of WordPress log into your blank wordpress install All In One WP Migration run the migration with the … Read more
My latest export from my blog (WP 3.3.1) now has the commentmeta in the XML. It’s in this format: <wp:comment> <wp:comment_id>…</wp:comment_id> … <wp:comment_user_id>0</wp:comment_user_id> **<wp:commentmeta> <wp:meta_key>name_of_meta</wp:meta_key> <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[value_of_meta]]></wp:meta_value> </wp:commentmeta>** </wp:comment> I was looking for information on it while trying to write an exporter from another system. Not much information available online so I tried an export from … Read more