The XML file you export will include references to the images, including a full URL. If the assets are actually available at that URL when you import the XML file, WordPress will automatically download them and add them to your new site’s media library. This gets tricky if the site you’re importing from isn’t publicly … Read more
Can you install a new wp next to your existing install? I assume you can. Your only argument is changing the domain would take long. If you do a new install in a subfolder. And when finished just edit your .htaccess file accordingly. It should be close to immediately.
I know this is ancient history, but this one definitely needs an answer as it is the first hit when searching for this problem on Google. You may have forgotten to enable the rewrite module for Apache: Enable the module in Apache: a2enmod rewrite Followed by Apache restart – systemd method shown below as this … Read more
I didn’t meet any ready-made script for CMS Made Simple to WordPress conversion, but I’ve found out that WordPress Codex has a listed service for it.
The first part of your question hangs more on how much control over web server configuration you have. If you can point new domain at the same location in filesystem — then no, you won’t have to move a thing. Otherwise you do indeed need to move files. On other hand it’s not that complicated … Read more
MAMP is the quickest route to a local dev environment. You can also use your Mac as a LAMP server without to much trouble, I found this more stable and easier to recreate server conditions than using MAMP. This is an excellent guide https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin-working-osx-10-10-yosemite/ A 3rd option is to start using Docker… This is my … Read more
Save the xml snippet to a xml file. And after seeing the message Failed to import post tag (after importing all the posts) import this file. It will import all the tags. Here is your xml– <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:excerpt=”http://wordpress.org/export/1.2/excerpt/” xmlns:content=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/” xmlns:wfw=”http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/” xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/” xmlns:wp=”http://wordpress.org/export/1.2/”> <channel> <wp:wxr_version>1.2</wp:wxr_version> <wp:tag> <wp:term_id>31</wp:term_id> <wp:tag_slug><![CDATA[accounts]]></wp:tag_slug> <wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Accounts]]></wp:tag_name> </wp:tag> <wp:tag> <wp:term_id>148</wp:term_id> … Read more
There are a few variables that need to be changed in order for you to update to the new link on your WordPress site since you mention that you’ve installed an existing WordPress site that has already been set up. Try the following steps using the Search Replace DB tool: Go and download Interconnect IT’s … Read more
It is the same procedure as going from local to live website. Supposing that you are using a Windows Machine, when downloading a Bitnami WordPress Installer, it creates a folder in C directory and than you can overwrite all the files with the downloaded ones execpt wp-config.php, After the phpMyAdmin installation where you must import … Read more
You didn’t mention what have you done so far to migrate your installation, but I’m going to write the full procedure. Backing Up the Old Database You need to create an exact duplicate of your database, to transfer it to your new server. There might be an encoding issue here, so to do this, login … Read more