You can’t. WordPress stores the passwords in the DB as hashes of the user password using a salt which is unique to the install. In an import situation (unlike full migration) you will probably not have the same salts in the new site and password validation will fail. You should just notify the users that … Read more
When changing your site URL or even just adding an SSL its a good idea to clear your browser cache before testing. Or simply use a new browser or open a private window to avoid the issue. To clear you browser cache you can do this, in Chrome. Click the 3 dots to go to … Read more
I don’t believe there is anyway to migrate passwords from our current site due to encryption. I wouldn’t necessarily rule that out. While WP uses PHPass as its regular hash for passwords, it still supports MD5 which was the original hash. If a password is an MD5 hash, it will be updated to the new … Read more
You can try to get current structure first by run wp option get permalink_structure and then wp option update permalink_structure ‘/%postname%’ or wp rewrite structure ‘/%postname%’ with ‘/%postname%’ is the return result of the first command. Not sure if this help
You can use the postmark extension for wp-cli to create posts from markdown files with quite a bit of control over how you deal with your frontmatter.
Don’t worry about changing the guid, you’ll be fine if you never update that field. The main places you’ll need to update are in the post_content column of wp_posts (for links and images), and in the wp_options table (for widget data). Before you do any database replacing, though, read through this thread: How to: Easily … Read more
See Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex and Backing Up Your Database « WordPress Codex and How to Move WordPress Blog to New Domain or Location » My Digital Life and possibly Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « WordPress Codex Deleted this added link as it advocates using a texteditor to change URLs in the dump; … Read more
Here are the step-by-step instructions to move your WordPress site to a new location on the same server: Create the new location using one of these two options: If you will be moving your WordPress core files to a new directory, create the new directory. (in my case , i made a folder named ‘kombat’ … Read more
The issue was actually with the database. I had to bring it down and install again and it worked out. Thanks for the help from everyone.
WordPress allows for this setup, and they have complete instructions here: Giving WordPress its Own Directory While Leaving Your Blog in the Root Directory I personally would move the files because to me it’s cleaner, but the above mentioned solution should work for you.