How did you migrate the site from your local machine to dreamhose? sometimes themes and plugins save the actual path to their file in the options table, and most likely the path at dreamhost is not the same as at your localhost. It is worth trying to use phpmyadmin to inspect the options table and … Read more
Or, you can do that – after headhache and spent one day to find a solution : You have to set ‘rewrite’ => false in your register_post_type(); and add after closing register_post_type() : // 404 CPT permalink WP bug… global $wp_rewrite; $projet_structure=”/projets/%projet%”; $wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag(“%projet%”, ‘([^/]+)’, “projet=”); $wp_rewrite->add_permastruct(‘projet’, $projet_structure, false); Where projet is my CPT See here … Read more
“Moving to .org” means “moving from WordPress.com blog provider to your own installation of WordPress which you can download from wordpress.org” – just to clear out your first point. And than, after you export all data from your wordpress.com account, while importing them to your local install, you’re asked to automaticly download all images. Answer … Read more
You have to change Settings -> General -> WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) in the old installation. WP looks in the DB at these settings and creates dynamic links, etc, from there, so you need to change it in the DB (either through these settings or by editing the db manually.) Another option … Read more
There’s a set of tutorials on how to deploy WordPress (source and DB) using Capistrano. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Capistrano allows you to deploy WordPress installations from the command line. It was initially developed for Ruby on Rails apps, but it has the capability to deploy many other systems, apparently. There’s … Read more
I always run queries in phpmyadmin http://www.phpmyadmin.net or adminer http://www.adminer.org/: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.olddomain.com/’, ‘http://www.newdomain.com/’) WHERE option_name=”home” OR option_name=”siteurl”; UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://www.olddomain.com/’,’http://www.newdomain.com/’); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘http://www.olddomain.com/’, ‘http://www.newdomain.com/’); Yes, some will say to never change the GUID, but changing the domain gives you no choice. Your … Read more
Really everything you need to know is in the docs. See Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex. They cover exporting/importing databases, moving uploads and other content, themes, etc. For particular issues with moving WP installs, search this site; many have already been answered.
WP uses the GUID column of posts for links. You need to replace that, I use a script http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Just drop it in your root dir then follow the instructions. Hope this helps!
I think it can be done with a redirection plugin. I won’t recommend touching .htaccess file without expert knowledge. Add New Redirection like this: Source URL: /home?format=rss Target URL: http://YOUR_WORDPRESS_SITE/feed Save the settings.
Look towards the end of your wp-config.php file, you should have the definition for ABSPATH looking something like: /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) ) define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); If it’s a static path instead of the code above, then this might not correspond to your current path. Either change … Read more