It is painful to clone the wordpress site sometimes when the site has a lot of plugins and custom code. I did it manually before. But I am using “Duplicator” plugin to handle this now. Please check: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
It looks like you have not imported the backup of database (sql file) to new database you have created in your localhost. Also after importing the database to local server you will need to replace the live site URL with new localhost URL at all instances in local database.
Trying to change edit the wp-config.php file was a good idea, let’s try some extra things to see if they solve the problem. Let’s add these lines to the bottom of your functions.php: update_option( ‘siteurl’, ‘http://LOCAL_HOST_IP/wordpress’ ); update_option( ‘home’, ‘http://LOCAL_HOST_IP/wordpress’ ); Using Relocate method Edit your wp-config.php file inserting: define(‘RELOCATE’,true); After that, from your browser … Read more
Accepting a little egg on my face. Dumb-dumb error. The above migration was 100% successful despite the error messages from WP-Cli and Search Replace DB. The reason that my theme appeared broken and other weird issues.. I forgot to re-enable my plugins folder that had been re-named “plugins_temp_disabled”, while troubleshooting a different problem. Good night … Read more
Update your wp_options table. Look for siteurl and home and change their values to point to your localhost, that is, http://localhost/mylocalsite. This should be enough to make your site work again. You don’t need to find and replace all instances where the old url is present. For example you should not change the guid of … Read more
Redirect to another page using contact form 7? [closed]
I for instance have MAMP pro running with custom development URLs like project.dev. When I created the one-click installation of WordPress through MAMP, it automaticly entered the port-number into WordPress as well. I don’t think WordPress likes when the port-number is :80 which is standard. Removing the port-number from WordPress Address and Site Address did … Read more
This is quite late for you, but this might help others. I came across this same situation and I found the way. Basically you need to create virtual host as @TheDeadMedic have suggested and then you can use it for ngrok. I found this tutorial for wamp, so you can get idea for XAMPP from … Read more
Install multi-site as subdomain setup. Do not use the sub-sites option. Go to Network Admin/Sites and select the site whose URL you want to change: Change the URL to the new domain. In your wp-config.php use define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ” ); to be able to log in in both sites. You don’t need a plugin for … Read more
Looks like Google App Engine doesn’t support WordPress 3.7.1 (something that’s not documented anywhere). Downgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 (the version mentioned in Google’s instructions) made it work – http://localhost:8080 was forwarded to WordPress Install page.