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I broke database after reuploading local version – what exactly happened? Database error

Create CSV for import from File directories?

simple batch file would do that: DIR %1 /B /S >files.csv Save as a bat file and place it in the root directory. Run the bat and will output directories and file names to files.csv same location as the bat file.

WordPress showing strange characters – UTF8

When you import from HeidiSQL, make sure whn selecting the file, to change the Enconding Option below to UTF-8, revert your wp-config the way it was

Exclude parts of default css import

Make a copy of Twenty Thirteen’s default stylesheet and remove all unnecessary styles. After it import this copy instead of Twenty Thirteen’s and after next update you won’t loose your changes.

When importing posts to a new site if XML file has postmeta not setup on new server what happens?

wordress core and importer has no way to know how any of the data is actually being used. The importer will just import everything, if a meta data stopped being used then you will get some not needed stuf in your DB but nothing worse then that. Of course it is very easy to test, … Read more

Export plugin omits many images

Moving Posts to a new site and maintaining URLs

Is WP Importer Safe on Multisite?

WP Importer is fine, providing the security of the site is in tact – meaning: No users with “admin” username secure passwords user registration disabled Salts configured properly in wp-config.php Renowned plugins ONLY – lots of plugins can be the cause of a weak link in a sites security, especially if the plugin provides any … Read more

How to cdv from a custom CMS to WP

Firstly it is always best to avoid HTML in your data especially divs. There is plenty CSS from what I can see and I’m guessing none of those styles would be used in the final blog. So it would result in a lot of inert code, not good practice and it is best to spend … Read more

Post attachments doesn’t show after manual db import

As i understand you have used a function like get_template_directory_uri() or a similar one for your image URLs. This way I believe you are only saving relative URL. So domain change is reflected on the URL change. If you want the images to point to the old domain then you should hard code in the … Read more

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