This issue with your file path URL. Still, Fontawesome trying to load fonts from “//localhost/website/wp-content/themes/Avada/includes/lib/assets/fonts/” Change all of your file path URL with your new site URL.
having done a few rebuilds myself I have seen my share of horror situations because some devs make a mess of it 🙂 It’s hard to advise you what the best way is without examining the code/setup/problems and without knowing what budget is available. Can be fixed in the template if you have someone who … Read more
Check wp-config.php. It’s possible to define these values there, in which case they won’t be available as settings, which means they won’t be saved in the database. It is possible to set the site URL manually in the wp-config.php file. Add these two lines to your wp-config.php, where “example.com” is the correct location of your … Read more
The simplest way to create identical websites on different domains is to use the plugin Multiple Domain. This allows you to have a single WP install with one database serving two domains. Next step is to copy this DB to a Chinese server, where create a script to copy DB and files from the main … Read more
WP CLI is a great tool for performing common admin and maintenance tasks on a WordPress install. It has a large range of commands that among other things allow you to install plugins, regenerate thumbnails, and in your case, perform a search and replace on the database. When migrating from dev to production I’d normally … Read more
I used to do this tedious manipulation manually, but I’ve dropped that way of migrating WP site when I discovered Duplicator. This is a free plugin which will save you a lot of pain for more complex website as it will rewrite all your current url to target server, import all your widget and activate … Read more
Your issue likely lies somewhere within wp-config.php. You should not need to run any install if your tables already exist, the wp-admin/install.php is only used when no tables are detected with the settings in wp-config.php. Going through parameter by parameter, I’ll give you some idea of what everything is. DB_NAME is the name of the … Read more
Since it is a custom site and database structure, there is no easy way to import your data into WordPress. I would suggest you instead focus on how you would accomplish the same thing within WordPress. In other words, start by pretending you don’t have those 1,000’s of ads, and build out your way of … Read more
If you didn’t hand-change the wpurl in the dev database, what probably happened is that you entered your url, and WP made a 301 redirect to the live site. Then, without realizing it, you changed the url config in your live site. To make it work: Put this in your wp-config.php define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://your-wp-url.com’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://your-wp-url.com’); … Read more
The easiest way to do this is by using copy&replace in the SQL file. Export the database. Use your favorite text editor and do a copy&replace and import it into a new database. Then you go to wp-config.php and you change the WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL to the new host. Then you change the databasename. You … Read more