I use the WP Clone plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/#reviews to ‘clone’ an existing site to a new site. Quite easy to use: install on ‘old” site then backup; install on new site, restore from the backup url you get during the backup. Quite easy to use, and usually reliable. I’ve sometimes had to backup/restore a second time … Read more
Why WordPress isn’t and/or can’t be domain agnostic
There are a couple of methods you can try. Depending on whether you want to keep your online data or not. Export Tool There is a tool for exporting data from one installation to another, under the Tools menu. Head over to Tools > Export and select All content from the options. Click the Download … Read more
Yes and no wp_salt is the function you’re thinking of: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.8/src/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1988 Your theory should be correct, copying the passwords over via SQL, and making sure all the salts are the same, then clearing cookies and trying to login, should do the trick. However, if we look at the code in the function, there are filters … Read more
Migrated from Windows to Linux. Any bulk methods for fixing case sensitivity?
Make sure your database connection is correct define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database-name’); define(‘DB_USER’, ‘database-username’); define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘database-password’); define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); And you should test with plain php file for connecting database like below codes <?php $connect = mysql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘root’, ‘password’); if (!$connect) { die(‘Could not connect: ‘ . mysql_error()); } echo ‘Connected successfully’; mysql_close($connect); To make it flexible on localhost … Read more
An easy approach will be to: Install “All in one WP Migration” plugin on your old domain & export the whole website using it. Install WordPress on your new Domain. Install the All in one WP Migration plugin on that domain as well & import your website using the file you downloaded. I think this … Read more
You’ll have to import or migrate the data or site. IT all depends on your premises and needs. As a first option, there is of course the WordPress Importer, which often does the job, but isn’t the most diverse tool there is. If you’re comfortable with WP-CLI – if not, you should, because the convenience … Read more
Why does importing copies of the database dump and the document root make WordPress data inconsistent?
If you know how WordPress is structured internally it should not be too hard. Here are the steps: For your site to migrate create a new site in the WordPress multisite environment (the information in the following tables must fit the new environment) wp_blogs (especially this) wp_blogs_versions (probably irrelevant) wp_registration_log (probably irrelevant) wp_signups (probably irrelevant) … Read more