Absolute or relative URLs are one of those eternal debates, but what you have to know in WordPress context is that it has strong affinity for absolute links. The logic is that changing absolute links in general is easier than changing level of relative links when necessary. The second point you need to know is … Read more
I used to do this tedious manipulation manually, but I’ve dropped that way of migrating WP site when I discovered Duplicator. This is a free plugin which will save you a lot of pain for more complex website as it will rewrite all your current url to target server, import all your widget and activate … Read more
Your issue likely lies somewhere within wp-config.php. You should not need to run any install if your tables already exist, the wp-admin/install.php is only used when no tables are detected with the settings in wp-config.php. Going through parameter by parameter, I’ll give you some idea of what everything is. DB_NAME is the name of the … Read more
Since it is a custom site and database structure, there is no easy way to import your data into WordPress. I would suggest you instead focus on how you would accomplish the same thing within WordPress. In other words, start by pretending you don’t have those 1,000’s of ads, and build out your way of … Read more
If you didn’t hand-change the wpurl in the dev database, what probably happened is that you entered your url, and WP made a 301 redirect to the live site. Then, without realizing it, you changed the url config in your live site. To make it work: Put this in your wp-config.php define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://your-wp-url.com’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://your-wp-url.com’); … Read more
Changing the home and siteurl in your wp_options table is not enough unfortunately. You will still have your post content with your non-localhost URL (http://www.thesite.com) causing your website to not display properly on your localhost. You should have the wp_options table on your localhost copy. Everything should be intact. To make sure exported your database … Read more
Yes. I just did an experiment on my own site to verify that changing those settings will redirect between www and non-www as you specify.
All of your links in the menu are pointing to http://www.magnetmediafilmsinc.com/ which may indicate the search and replace script you used didn’t do the search and replace properly/completely. The other links on the index page are pointing to http://iamshawnrce.com/demo/casestudies/?p=postID which I would expect to see. Plugins and caches can also cause this problem. Make sure … Read more
This might not be the issue, but I would install the All In One WP Security & Firewall plugin by “Tips and Tricks HQ” and use that plugin the check your file and directory permissions. Often times file permissions or also file ownership gets messed up in migrations. Seeing as you have deleted all plugins … Read more
Yes. You can export the content of the site and import it into a new, single-site installation with the WordPress Importer plugin.