Been there done that. Try this: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Its a search and replace tool that you put in your WordPress root and just run it from mydomain.dev/searchreplacedb2.php It fixes the serialization problem when you want to change the url:s to the live one.
So, every time you save a post, you want to replace the value of a title that just got saved with another value from a custom field… Seems like you should just put whatever you what the title to be in the actual title field. BUT I’m assuming this is for presentational purposes: you want … Read more
Okay, I solved it (again, cause this happened before but I forgot the solution!)…. This was for a custom post type and I hadn’t added a support that involved uploading something. So, I added “thumbnail” to the list of supports… ‘supports’ => array(‘title’,’author’,’thumbnail’) for my custom post and that did the trick! It’s a weird … Read more