Hi @ooo: Assuming you want to keep the same domain, it’s really quite simple. Basically you copy the files using an FTP client by downloading from the old host and uploading to the new one, and then you copy the MySQL database by doing a database dump to a SQL script (this is your “export”) … Read more
If you follow SethMerrick’s advice, you can greatly reduce the switchover time by lowering the TTL on the appropriate DNS records to 5 mins or so several hours (depending on what the current TTL is) before you change the IP address. By doing this you are telling remote DNS servers to only cache the address … Read more
Here are two possible solutions, both of these are actually generic MySQL version control tools but can be adapted to your workflow: dbv.php This tool creates “migrations”, which are basically SQL scripts, from the changes detected on the database. These scripts are stored in a local directory and thus can be commited to your current … Read more
This can be somewhat tedious, but hopefully this helps. The less that changes from one environment to the next, the less painful this process will be. Particularly, if the domain, site id, file paths remain the same, the less painful this process will be. This post assumes some knowledge of database management. It is not … Read more
Since WP-CLI 0.24.0 you can now use aliases which enable you to import a remote database quite easily. By using aliases, you can run WP-CLI commands against another WP-CLI install. That install could be a remote machine. With this in mind I’ve hacked together a bash alias that chains together several WP-CLI commands to pull … Read more
I guess you haven’t taken a look at the file that is served for downloading, if so you would have seen this: <?php /** * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme. * * @package WordPress */ /** * … Read more
Go to settings->permalinks and click on save button to rewrite flush. And then empty your browser cache. It’ll work hopefully.
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed answers to this question, including citations and an explanation of why your answer is correct. Answers without enough detail may be edited or deleted. The data you’re looking at is not JSON formatted. JSON doesn’t (normally) store value types and lengths like that. What you’re looking at is … Read more
There’s actually a great function that will do all three of those things for you: media_sideload_image( $url, $post_id, $description ); The first argument is the remote url of the image you want to download. The second argument is the post id of the post to which you want to attach the image. The third argument … Read more
Really no easy way to do what you are wanting to do, but what I would do is make a snapshot of your site, implement yoru changes and if anything brakes restore and try again. It might be down for an hour, but I just recently did this when I somehow bricked a site I … Read more