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Copying wordpress to another server breaks it on original server
I am working on a new version our site. Today I was going to put the blog on the new version.
Our current website and the successor I am building are on different servers and accessed by different ...
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How can I migrate a super old version (2.0) of my blog to 3.1?
I can't use any of the import plugins because of the older version -- so it's kind of a pain, plus the URL permalinks arent very optimal. Any ideas on how to do this? I'm afraid I'd have to do this ...
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Migrating users from .com to .org?
I am in the process of migrating my blog from my wordpress.com address to a self-hosting (wordpress v3.1.2) address.
Blog has migrated across nicely.
Appears my users have also migrated across, but ...
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Setting up WordPress playground and deploying to production server?
I would like to have WordPress on my local OS X machine to test out different themes, content, etc and then deploy it on to the production Linux server. I'm using WordPress for my website and ...
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Moving WordPress.com theme and widget settings to self-hosted site?
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Migrating from WordPress.com to self-hosted site and autoforward visitors?
How can I move theme and plugin (widget) settings from a WordPress.com site to a self-hosted ...
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Change site url when moving site to another url?
Is it really neccessary to put WP_HOME, WP_SITEURL in wp-config.php or set these settings via admin panel every time when moving a WordPress instance to another url (for example: moving from dev ...
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Migration issue - blog home page is blank
I want to move my Wordpress blog to a different server. I dumped the database from the old server and imported it to the new server, and set up the new database details in wp-config.php. I can log in ...
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After server migration only the homepage works
I have recently changed hosting of my WordPress site to VPS.net. I have moved all of my files and imported the database. Everything appeared to be fine until I clicked a link and noticed that all of ...
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How do I reset a self-hosted Wordpress URL?
i was using a wordpress install on an ubuntu server virtual machine. At first the adapter was host-only at an address of 192.168.55.55. The host had this on a vboxnet0 subnet.
i changed to bridged ...
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Will post id change when migrating to new site?
I'm creating a rather complex plugin that synchronizes posts from your server with a thirdparty server. I need to know, if you migrate your wordpress server to a new site, "can" the post ids change? ...
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URL rewrite based on a custom field value
I'm working on a migration from another CMS to WordPress. The old site had terrible SEO-unfriendly URLs in the format http://example.com?lid=1234.
We have imported all the posts from the old site ...
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Multiple developers / editors working on a site in progress
Background
I'm nearing the final stages of constructing my first fairly large WordPress site, and I'm now encountering some friction. For the most part, the site was developed on my local machine and ...
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Moving Wordpress to new server: no posts found
I have a weird problem with moving a Wordpress installation to a new server (just the server changes, domain remains the same, I'm currently accessing the site on the new server via the same domain ...
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Migrating from WordPress.com to self-hosted site and autoforward visitors?
Having moved to my hosting my own WordPress blogsite I now need to ensure that readers find the new site rather than the old WordPress.com site. What is the best mechanism for doing this?
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Programmatically get images by URL and save in uploads folder
I am involved in a large migration from another CMS to WordPress. We have a copy of the database and have worked out how to extract the content and programmatically create WordPress posts from it ...
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Migrating data between local and development server
I've been working away at a medium-size WordPress site. So far I've just been hosting the site on my local machine and showing it to internal consultants over our local network. Things are working ...
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Moving Some Articles to new site
I have a question about moving wordpress sites around. I've read most of the Support Docs about moving a wordpress site. My question is this, what would you guys recommend in regards to moving only ...
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Transferring from “Populate” CMS to WordPress
Okay, apologies up front for being such a coding novice. I am transferring a web site (not a blog) from a CMS called Populate over to WordPress, from one hosting to a different hosting. I don't have ...
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What is the best practice to get a site from local to online?
I develop my sites on a local xamp setup.
When I´m done I need to get the site to my customer´s domain.
Can I use vault press or backupbuddy for this, or is there a better process ?
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How to migrate Wordpress Blogs into Multisite without using the GUI-Import/Export Feature
I'd like to migrate some quite huge Wordpress-Blogs into one Multisite Installation.
The Export-Wizard and the Import Wizard are bound to PHP-Limits (Memory, Execution-Time) and so the Export and ...
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How do I redirect my blog posts to a subdomain?
I currently have my blog at alexangas.com and would like to move it to www.alexangas.com.
Is this as simple as changing the WordPress Address and Site Address in Settings? How can I ensure that users ...
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How can I assign post a specific ID on creation?
I'm migrating content from an existing site into wordpress.
The old site has cross links that I'd like to maintain in the new site.
I can convert the old links to wordpress format links (based on ...
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How do you seamlessly switch hosting?
I recently switched a WP site from shared hosting to a VPS and would like to document the process here.
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How to replace the domain name in a Wordpress database?
I have a Wordpress database which was installed in a development environment... thus, all references to the site itself have a fixed IP address (say 192.168.16.2). Now, I have to migrate that database ...
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how do i find out why links point to my old domain
i migrated a wordpress site from one domain to another. I still have images and links that seem to be pointing to my old domain name.
where can i get a list of all places in wordpress that hardcode ...
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Wordpress Local to Live and The Missing Widgets!
I have just finished my local dev of a wordpress woo theme for a client which has extensive sidebar customization and widgets.
Ive done a full mysql export and import via phpmyadmin. However when I ...
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Redirects from Tumblr to new WP
I migrated a site from Tumblr to WordPress and was able to get all the content over (in pieces) using the FeedWordPress plugin. What I am now trying to do is get the old permalink structure to ...
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Migrating a WordPress site from One Hosting Provider to Another?
I have my WordPress site being hosted on a Windows provider and I am moving to another Windows provider. Any gotchas or instructions on how i can smoothly transition from one to another without losing ...
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How to migrate from Mark Jaquith's Subscribe to Comments plugin to Gurken's new version?
Mark Jaquith's Subscribe to Comments plugin has been a staple of my WordPress site since shortly after I launched it. However, it's not really maintained any more (last updated end of 2007) and it ...
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How can I migrate from another platform to WordPress (using the same domain) and launch when ready?
Currently, I have a blog that runs atop Tumblr, which is relatively young (3 months old or so, maybe 25 posts altogehter) that I want to migrate to a self-hosted Wordpress installation. I've installed ...
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Redirecting traffic from old “.WordPress.com” blog to privately hosted WordPress blog?
I've got a blog hosted on .wordpress.com, ie the free version.
I'm thinking of re-activating my hosting package so I can have my own WP installation, and therefore have more customisation options ...
