Congrats on your first client. I’m glad you are looking around to make sure that you start off on the right foot. Like anything that you start in life, your experience will increase over time and the more you practice. However, we live in a digital age and popular open-source platforms such as WordPress have … Read more
There is no direct way to ‘convert’ an old site. If you did attempt it, there would be much customized programming needed to grab data from the CF pages into the WordPress site. It can be done, but I don’t know if the effort is worth it. It all depends on the site content. If … Read more
It’s easy and possible. all you need to do is export your content from wp.com (wp-admin/tools/export) and import it to your new website (wp-admin/tools/import). That should be all, I would also suggest that you purchase https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ so if a visitor goes to mywebsite.wordpress.com, they get redirected to mywebsite.com
Try to edit your wp-config.php and add the lines: define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://example.com/’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://example.com/’); with https or http.
You need the files and a database, so here you are missing the database. follow these steps: http://www.wpexplorer.com/migrating-wordpress-website/
I don’t know that you can do that. WP files are stored in the database. The Wayback machine is just a generated version of the files. You need the database. Your hosting place might have a database backup, though. If you can get a backup copy of the database, you can use that in a … Read more
I have found that the easiest way to ‘move’ a blog is to clone it with WP Clone plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/ ). You install it on the source system and do a backup. Then you install it on the target system and restore the backup. Ta-da! Both systems are exactly the same. Although you can do … Read more
Ended up just exporting via command line. Neither answers were appropriate for the situation.
There is a search and replace plugin I have used that works pretty good. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/ In the future I would not hard code any links in if you can help it as well. Use dynamic linking like: $url = site_url(‘/secrets/’); echo $url; or: img src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/81722/<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri() ?>/images/aternus.png” alt=”” title=”” width=”” height=”” /> as an … Read more
I had much success using https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB Though there are Plugins for WordPress available that do a Search & Replace, i recommend the above linked script. In older WordPress versions it was possible to move an entire site by simply replacing some strings, but as far as i know, WordPress now creates hashes/indexes for some strings … Read more