If your data is inside database as I understand, it is possible to export your database to CSV file and import this to WordPress. CSV file is basically a comma separated list of data from your database that makes it possible to transfer data from different database structure to another. It does indeed take some … Read more
Old unanswered question, but found this via the googles (1st answer) that appears to have good info / links (might be useful to someone): What is the required format for importing posts into WordPress? Plus this one from the Codex, which has info on importing from all sorts of formats, including RSS and XML. https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content … Read more
Per the OP’s comment: I found trailing slash is missing is wp_options table in SQL, which is showing two blog sites running as multisite. Fixed the trailing slash site pointing correctly.
Changing the home and siteurl in your wp_options table is not enough unfortunately. You will still have your post content with your non-localhost URL (http://www.thesite.com) causing your website to not display properly on your localhost. You should have the wp_options table on your localhost copy. Everything should be intact. To make sure exported your database … Read more
Sounds like you are still having content pointing back to your live URL, possibly. To ensure that you have changed all the URLs from https://www.example.com to http://10.1.15.5/mywp, follow these steps: Go and download Interconnect IT’s Database Search & Replace Script here Unzip the file and drop the folder in your localhost where your WordPress is … Read more
You can have a different theme for each sub-site in multisite. Just set up the subsite, then select the theme from the available ones. If the sites are related to each other in some way, then having a common domain name might be an advantage (although there are some redirect things you can do to … Read more
Have you considered to use REST API to bridge the two environments? Basically you need to hit the posts endpoint https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts using the after argument that permit to limit response to posts published after a given ISO8601 compliant date. With the response you can insert new posts and sync the two installation. More detail about … Read more
Yes, it’s possible (and quite easy) to migrate from Mark Jaquith’s Subscribe to Comments plugin to Gurken Subscribe to Comments plugin. The steps: Install Gurken Subscribe to Comments (using either FTP or WordPress’s plugin manager) Don’t activate Gurken StC yet. First deactivate Mark Jaquith’s version. Activating the new plugin too soon will fail because both … Read more
Hey, you might have luck with a prior plugin I wrote (here’s the code itself). It’s a redirect plugin that looks at the URL coming in, checks it against the postmeta table if it’s about to produce a 404, and redirect the user if a match is found. If you have the entire URI stored … Read more
Yes. I just did an experiment on my own site to verify that changing those settings will redirect between www and non-www as you specify.