In addition, you can import attachment by checking the “Download and import file attachments” option. (source) This means, if you use the official WordPress Importer plugin, it will read the media URL from the file, download that file and finally upload it to your new install. When your old site is offline, eg. taken offline … Read more
** Edit ** Did you check your folder structure ? did you rename the wordpress folder ? have nested folders ? ** end edit ** @ allan z – that will not (always) work for an existing site , due to a multitude of reasons . the best way is to either follow these instructions … Read more
Read http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#When_Your_Domain_Name_or_URLs_Change You’ve only moved the PHP files. That is only part of the process. Migrating the databse would mean: Create a database, if there isn’t one already Move the database from your local server to the remote one. Edit/alter key values in the database The same wp-config editing trick used here will get you … Read more
I use this for search and replace on databases – https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Simply move files with FTP, export and import database and then run the script searching for old URL and replacing with the new URL. Then I resave permalinks and I’m done. I’ve moved WP thousands of times using this. I’ve got the old script … Read more
You can use the WP CLI too to rename your site’s hostname safely and effectively. There’s a chance that your layout is being messed up because naively replacing the domain name with a simple string replace, e.g. perl -pi -e ‘s/oldhost/newhost/g’ backup.sql, will not take into account things like serialized data. Try this on your … Read more
Yes, use the “import_id” field in the post, when calling wp_insert_post. This is treated as a “suggested” ID for the post that will be used if no post with that ID already exists. $post = array( ‘post_title’=>’whatever’, ‘post_content’=>’whatever’, ‘import_id’=>123 ); wp_insert_post($post);
Back up your database (this is very very important) and download and install “Velvet Blues Update URLs” plugin. On the settings page enter in the old URL field http://subdomain.domain.com/subdomain.domain.com Enter in the new URL field the URL of your website. Select all options and click “Update”. Update your permalinks as well.
Making content (database) changes on a staging environment is never recommended. You should only use a local/staging environment for template changes. Then, update your theme/plugins (the wp-content folder), and push those files to the live site. Once that’s completed, you can then populate the content. Database merging/synchronization is it’s own specialty/portion of the industry, and … Read more
Since you cannot get access to the website due to a HTTP/HTTPS conflict, you need to ensures that all of the URLs for your website are up-to-date, try the following steps using the Search Replace DB tool: Go and download Interconnect IT’s Database Search & Replace Script here Unzip the file and drop the folder … Read more
You have a narrow selection to choose from. Either replace the database tables with something like wp-cli or have a special import-export process for your data. If you want to make this granular, you could make a post metabox to import/export post content and metadata as json. Then updates could be incremental and on the … Read more