You didn’t mention what have you done so far to migrate your installation, but I’m going to write the full procedure. Backing Up the Old Database You need to create an exact duplicate of your database, to transfer it to your new server. There might be an encoding issue here, so to do this, login … Read more
You can’t. WordPress stores the passwords in the DB as hashes of the user password using a salt which is unique to the install. In an import situation (unlike full migration) you will probably not have the same salts in the new site and password validation will fail. You should just notify the users that … Read more
The problem is you ran an SQL query to change the site name. Doing this mangled and corrupted values that were serialised by PHP Instead, use a Search replace script that will grab the values, deserialise, replace then re-serialise. WP CLI has such a command. The reason for this is that the PHP serialised values … Read more
When editing content in the content editor WordPress hardcodes the current URL that is being used to access the WordPress admin. This is usually found in link href and image src. There are several plugins or tools (like wp-cli) that can assist you in finding and replacing the url between environments. You will likely want … Read more
When changing your site URL or even just adding an SSL its a good idea to clear your browser cache before testing. Or simply use a new browser or open a private window to avoid the issue. To clear you browser cache you can do this, in Chrome. Click the 3 dots to go to … Read more
I don’t believe there is anyway to migrate passwords from our current site due to encryption. I wouldn’t necessarily rule that out. While WP uses PHPass as its regular hash for passwords, it still supports MD5 which was the original hash. If a password is an MD5 hash, it will be updated to the new … Read more
9 times out of 10, this is an issue with the .htaccess. Try flushing the permalinks: Log into your WordPress Dashboard Navigate to Settings => Permalinks Click the Save button (don’t change anything, just click save)
You can try to get current structure first by run wp option get permalink_structure and then wp option update permalink_structure ‘/%postname%’ or wp rewrite structure ‘/%postname%’ with ‘/%postname%’ is the return result of the first command. Not sure if this help
You can use the postmark extension for wp-cli to create posts from markdown files with quite a bit of control over how you deal with your frontmatter.
Why not use htaccess on the old place to redirect to the new place? And make sure that the new place has SSL (another htaccess directive). Much googles/bings/ducks on how to use htaccess to redirect from old domain to new one.