I don’t think you will find any comprehensive or easy answer for this. I think the way you already broke down the various aspects of your installation is the key – i.e., thinking of changes to files as different from changes to the database. Most of the changes I make are at the file level … Read more
It would appear that as of today, there is no easy automated way to do the migration. Closing this out.
Turn off commenting in your old blog using the following Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-comments/ Then turn off the new user registration from Settings->General by unchecking “Anyone can register” Hope it will help 🙂
Try using the 10up/MU-Migration command: https://github.com/10up/MU-Migration
If you have access to your mysql you can update the wp-options table. Before modification… $ mysql -u <db_user> –password=<db_pwd> -D <db_name> <<<“select * from wp_options where option_name in (‘siteurl’, ‘home’);” +———–+—————–+—————————————————————————————————+———-+ | option_id | option_name | option_value | autoload | +———–+—————–+—————————————————————————————————+———-+ | 1 | siteurl | http://172.17.0.2/wordpress | yes | | 2 | home … Read more
If you have problems to log even into your blog, edit wp-config.php: Add these two lines to your wp-config.php, where “example.com” is the NEW location of your site. define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://example.com’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://example.com’); This will at least make it useable again (but won’t fix links inside post and page content, see Ticket #4003). . Additionally you can add … Read more
My experience with blank home page. Sometimes when you are migrating your page you can get blank home page. I found the problem with the home page not displaying from the base URL. it was because there was a default.html file in the root directory. The old hosting server must had set the order to … Read more
Those parameters and admin settings change the URLs in the database. The only other way to do that is run SQL queries on the DB in phpmyadmin to change them: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://olddomain.com’, ‘http://newdomain.com’) WHERE option_name=”home” OR option_name=”siteurl”; UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://olddomain.com’,’http://newdomain.com’); UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, … Read more
Note: The following is largely untested (It worked after testing on one post). As you’ve pointed out when you edit a post, the plug-in takes the content in the database (HTML) and converts that to MarkDown for editing. Since in your case the content is actually not in HTML, but already in MarkDown, we want … Read more
If you follow SethMerrick’s advice, you can greatly reduce the switchover time by lowering the TTL on the appropriate DNS records to 5 mins or so several hours (depending on what the current TTL is) before you change the IP address. By doing this you are telling remote DNS servers to only cache the address … Read more