update_post_meta is maybe_serialising. And in this case is storing it as a serialised string The string your passing isn’t a correctly serialised array. If you pass it the raw array it will self convert it to the correct serialised string. The correct string is a:1:{i:0;s:4:”test”}, passing that shouldn’t serialise but probably will. You are betted … Read more
with 80k attachments you will waste time mostly on transferring the attachments, the network delay will be your killer. If you can avoid importing attachments at all that will probably be the best, and after the WordPress is setup you can try to find a plugin that scans a directory and creates attachments for its … Read more
DomDocument is a PHP extension. It is either not installed or is disabled. You will need to install that module and/or enable it. You will need server level access to correct it. That is, you will need to be able to configure PHP. How you do that depends on what kind of server you have, … Read more
I would not export and import posts as a remote publishing strategy. That is going to be a lot of trouble and probably prone to error. You will also have issues with media uploads that you will have to sync between the local and remote servers and with file URLs that you will have to … Read more
Your XML file includes the following instructions. Log in to that site as an administrator. Go to Tools: Import in the WordPress admin panel. Install the “WordPress” importer from the list.* Activate & Run Importer. Upload this file using the form provided on that page. You will first be asked to map the authors in … Read more
Admittedly, this is a guess. The exporter, in the versions I have used, does not save your files to a local disk. It creates an XML file with references to your images on a server somewhere. When the importer reads the XML file, it will download from that server and upload to your new installation. … Read more
Sorted it out myself. The problem was, server was very slow to process the import. The process was happening behind the scene but server actually went down. When server was up, I could see all the content on the other site.
One of the hard requirements of WordPress theme is presence of style.css file with a header. It doesn’t go beyond file being present or even used at all, it can be otherwise empty. The CSS itself has no requirements on WP side and falls under generic web development.
You’re probably looking for the export/import tools. From the dashboard you can use the export tool to create a file with all the blog posts, comments and users from one blog, and then your other install use the import tool to merge them into the blog you wish to keep. You can map old users … Read more
There is documentation on how to create a theme on the codex: Theme Development. You can also get started quickly with basic starter themes; underscores. There are also tools that you can use to package and distribute your theme; wp dist-archive