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Links after moving my site to another domain

See Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex These are typical queries to run in phpmyadmin to change URLs, but you may also have serialized data in widget and theme options that will have to be changed, too: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://olddomain.com’, ‘http://newdomain.com’) WHERE option_name=”home” OR option_name=”siteurl”; UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://olddomain.com’,’http://newdomain.com’); … Read more

Trying to migrate a WordPress Multisite with Domain Mapping

This may be incomplete information, but I’ve had problems with domain mapping on multisite systems with a similar configuration as posted in your question. First, I would look at the htaccess of the main site. Make sure that any redirects is not domain-specific, so it uses something like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on RewriteRule … Read more

Does WordPress Import/Export tool actually exports media (images) as well?

In addition, you can import attachment by checking the “Download and import file attachments” option. (source) This means, if you use the official WordPress Importer plugin, it will read the media URL from the file, download that file and finally upload it to your new install. When your old site is offline, eg. taken offline … Read more

How to migrate from wordpress.com to self-hosted wordpress

** Edit ** Did you check your folder structure ? did you rename the wordpress folder ? have nested folders ? ** end edit ** @ allan z – that will not (always) work for an existing site , due to a multitude of reasons . the best way is to either follow these instructions … Read more

Error establishing a database connection After Copy localhost wordpress site (with site url directly to hosting server’s url before copy)

Read http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#When_Your_Domain_Name_or_URLs_Change You’ve only moved the PHP files. That is only part of the process. Migrating the databse would mean: Create a database, if there isn’t one already Move the database from your local server to the remote one. Edit/alter key values in the database The same wp-config editing trick used here will get you … Read more

Moving WordPress from live to local server

Remove WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL from your wp-config.php, and then check in the wp_options table for the values “siteurl” and “home” and change them to http://localhost/sitefolder. It must be an absolute URL. The WP Codex has more information about changing the site URL.

How to change a WordPress network domain

The database Initially you should update all references to your old domain in the database. The following SQL will take care of that, but first read these notes – This SQL assumes that you are using the default wp_ table prefix. Simply change this to your chosen table prefix if you have changed it. Replace … Read more

What’s a better workflow for database migration?

I use this for search and replace on databases – https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Simply move files with FTP, export and import database and then run the script searching for old URL and replacing with the new URL. Then I resave permalinks and I’m done. I’ve moved WP thousands of times using this. I’ve got the old script … Read more

Copy site from one multisite to another

Migrating WPMS from apache to IIS7 causes Database Error

I worked through this problem myself with the help of a forum mod on wordpress.org. You can see the full forum post here.

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