I used Search-Replace-DB from https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB to replace domain urls for the site I needed to develop. I also had trouble with the WP Sharely plugin which was enabled sitewide – it was looking for an activation file on a NAS box in the cloud somewhere. Once I disabled sitewide plugins manually in the DB, I … Read more
How to migrate, does WordPress hardcode or shortcode image URLs?
The old versions of the home and site url are likely in the database somewhere. Add two lines to your config.php file to override them as needed: define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://example.com’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://example.com’); If you visit Settings / General and save the settings, they should get stored to their new value in the database. You should then … Read more
The main WordPress-specific solution would be to export the site content as XML (Dashboard -> Tools -> Export -> All Content), then do with the XML file whatever you need/want.
you can use this tool http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ to replaces the urls. The advantage over SQL replace is that the tool know how to handle serialized info in the DB. Being easy to sync is problematic requirement with the way you are trying to do things. If you need that, then you should simply change your localhosts … Read more
You can use backupbuddy plugin. There are other free plugins but I didn’t test them. However… it is also easy clone the website without using a plugin. What you need to do is to zip all site files and downalod database. Then you need to open .sql file with some code editor where you need … Read more
A fast way on Windows is the tool DUK. Edit and copy the config-file dsbs-wrapper.php to new server, the wp install and run the tool, the exe. It will check the database and will correction the strings.
You need to revise your last rule RewriteRule ^blog(.*)$ http://blog.joesexample.com/$1 [R=301,L] I think that should do it. Previously you were grabbing ‘blog’ and adding it to the end of the url.
Disable all plugins and see if you can get into wp-admin. My guess is an errant plugin is causing problems. For example there might be a system specific setting in a plugin and causes it to break on another system
Drupal 6 to WordPress migration – media attachments