Sure you can copy the folders and their contents over. A few caveats: they will start as deactivated their database records will not be copied over automatically. Some paid plugins store the license key in the database. there may be compatibility issues if your new site is on a different version of WordPress, PHP, etc., … Read more
Why don’t you use Duplicator – WordPress Migration Plugin for migration?. I have also used same plugin used by you for migration but Duplicator is far better then other migration plugins. I think this problem can be resolve by using above plugin.
First get data from wp_postmeta table $description = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘description’, true ); Try following code to update content $my_post = array( ‘ID’ => $post->ID, ‘post_content’ => $description, ); //Update the post into the database wp_update_post( $my_post );
Migration with domain change can be tricky and not for the faint of heart. It is much easier to keep the domain the same and port it over to a new environment and then changes the domain. Then, at the very most, it is just a matter of passwords for the database resident in the … Read more
Since you can see the homepage, things are going well. For the search and replace, use whatever is your new url for your homepage. If it is just an IP, then use that one, just make sure you make similar replace, e.g: If you search for oldsite.com it’s ok to replace with #.#.#.# but not … Read more
Use the official CLI tool: wp search-replace ‘http://localhost’ ‘https://yoursitecom’ It will automatically deserialize any post meta, options, theme mods, etc and adjust them to match the new URL. Fundamentally though, it’s bad practice to store URLs to images posts and assets in the database. Store the post ID instead, and this problem goes away
If the previous posts are a service supported by WordPress’ importer you could try using that. https://wordpress.org/support/article/importing-content/ If that doesn’t support your previous blog service you could try WP All Import http://www.wpallimport.com/ I’ve used both of these methods with pretty good success.
Look in your wp_options database table for the siteurl and home options and check these are using your local URL. As Captain S commented, these can also be overridden in your wp-config: define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://www.localsite.test’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://www.localsite.test’);
I’d use a “Search and Replace” plugin (I like “Better Search and Replace”) to search for all http://www.example.com and replace with https://www.example.com . That will fix media URLs, for instance, and other settings. It could also be that your theme is calling http resources rather than https. You could look in the Developer screen (F12 … Read more
Strategy for cleaning up To give a high level answer to your question, there basically isn’t a way to achieve this completely cleanly with WordPress. The reason for this is that WordPress doesn’t enforce a ‘contract’ for the data structure with its themes or plugins. There’s no way WordPress core can say ‘Plugin, tell me … Read more