Migration with domain change can be tricky and not for the faint of heart. It is much easier to keep the domain the same and port it over to a new environment and then changes the domain. Then, at the very most, it is just a matter of passwords for the database resident in the … Read more
Strategy for cleaning up To give a high level answer to your question, there basically isn’t a way to achieve this completely cleanly with WordPress. The reason for this is that WordPress doesn’t enforce a ‘contract’ for the data structure with its themes or plugins. There’s no way WordPress core can say ‘Plugin, tell me … Read more
The file wp-content/object-cache.php is one of the dropins – PHP files with custom code that are not plugins. It is used when you are using a persistent object cache plugin, and it will be loaded automatically. Normally the plugin will create that file. But if you move all the files without the plugin, the code … Read more
When migrating a live site to local you need to do a couple of thing. update the site url, you can do this in wp_options column (phpmyadmin) or in wp-config.php You need to find and replace all instances of the old url, you can use better search replace, its a great plugin for exactly that … Read more
A good solution to your problem would be to use a maintenance mode plugin. These plugins will show a splash page to your visitors, but allow administrators full access to the site. You can find these plugins in the Plugin Repository, for example: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/
use WordPress Duplicator plugin, https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ it will automatically transfer your Content, pages, posts, media files, users database, everything will be moved at once. thanks, Muhammad
Probably the problem is caused by 4. WordPress stores some data as serialized arrays. When you change the domains this data gets corrupted – read http://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php (Anatomy of a serialize()’ed value part will explain you everything). How to resolve it? Use https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/ It will convert data correctly.
Given these errors are all being generated by WP core, there might be a corrupt install (a file/files only partially copied) Download the matching WP install and manually upload the files above throwing errors over the top
WordPress stores the domain of the installation in several places of the database. So you have to change them in numerous tables. In the case of working, look at the options table, entries siteurl and homeurl. It is also possible to set this via wp-config.php: // Home URL of your WordPress. define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https:/example.com’ ); … Read more
I would try the following: site #1 == source site #2 == destination On the Site #1: on all the post you want to move/migrate allocate them a category say ‘moved’ export them using ‘Tools’ > ‘Export’ (select ‘Posts’ and specify categories ‘moved’) On site #2: Import your exported file using ‘Tools’ > ‘Import’ > … Read more