Media Library empty after server move (exact copy of files and db’s)
Media Library empty after server move (exact copy of files and db’s)
Media Library empty after server move (exact copy of files and db’s)
Export + Import = wrongly duplicated content
I wanted to add this as a comment because I want to be brief, but SE will not let me do it since I just signed up. Anyway, I just faced the exact same issue you are facing. This blog post helped me: http://theblogpress.com/blog/seeing-weird-characters-on-blog-how-to-fix-wordpress-character-encoding-latin1-to-utf8/ As well as this thread: Character encoding issue after changing servers … Read more
Trouble Migrating all data blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
Search the place in your theme where you’re including the google fonts script, and remove the leading part http: , at the beginning of google fonts api url. The part you’re going to leave should look like //fonts.googleapis.com/css?family= and so on (leave what is after family but nothing before // ) Make a search replace … Read more
It’s a very common issue when migrating to a different domain. Try one of the two options: 1. Backend: execute a SQL query Go into your database (phpMyAdmin) and execute the following SQL query: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘OLD_URL’, ‘NEW_URL’) WHERE option_name=”home” OR option_name=”siteurl”; UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘OLD_URL’,’NEW_URL’); UPDATE wp_posts … Read more
To answer your questions: Is this possible with an SQL command or just manually? Possibly. This would require you to map the data from your old table to the new WordPress table, since your old custom PHP script won’t be on WordPress. Merging your data from your old recipe table into WordPress won’t work since … Read more
Here are the steps I would take. Make a backup of the database backup and store it someplace safe Find out what version of WordPress the site was running when the backup was done like this: open the sql dump file in a text editor and search for db_version. Use that value to find the … Read more
Clean private data (passwords, ftp, database) before zipping my site and SQL and give it to other person
I use All-in-one WP Migration. It handles the database search/replace automatically, and lets you specify what parts of the site to export. Upload can be troublesome sometimes, but if you ftp the .wpress file to /wp-content/ai1wm-backups/ you can import from the backup instead of uploading through the plugin interface.