What is most efficient way to migrate wordpress website?

I use All-in-one WP Migration. It handles the database search/replace automatically, and lets you specify what parts of the site to export. Upload can be troublesome sometimes, but if you ftp the .wpress file to /wp-content/ai1wm-backups/ you can import from the backup instead of uploading through the plugin interface.

Regenerate thumnails does not create any files

The solution for this problem was rather strange. I hired a developer who helped me solve this: increased memory limit in config.php (not sure if this was causing the problem since it didn’t look like a time-out or anything) in the file regenerate-thumbnail.php the line wp_update_attachment_metadata( $image->ID, $metadata ); was commented. I’m sure I did … Read more