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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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How can 2 blogs share the same users
I have a running normal WP blog (blog 1). I want to create a Q&A section for my users, so I setup another blog with WP-Answer theme (blog 2).
The problem is I don't want my users at blog 1 have ...
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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 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 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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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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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 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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Migrating Markdown (from Drupal)
I'm in the process of migrating my blog from Drupal to Wordpress. I have made liberal use of Markdown in the original posts (and Geshi syntax highlighting).
In see that the WP-Markdown plugin ...
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Is there an easy way to migrate a site from SiteFinity to WordPress?
Has anyone ever migrated a site from SiteFinity to WordPress? I've got a large (1,200+ page) site that I'm transitioning over to WordPress and I'm not looking forward to the content migration.
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Why does WordPress use serialize rather than json_encode for the options table?
I have a basic understanding of serialize (I come across it often when I'm migrating WordPress installs) and I just discovered json_encode.
Given that serialize causes so much trouble with replacing ...
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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 ...
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Using chunk theme from wordpress.com on my own host
I am new to wordpress so please excuse this question if it is obvious, but I was not able to find a good answer here or via the more general internet.
I want to use the Chunk theme from wordpress.com ...
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Plugins to clone wordpress site and move to another url
Are there any possible plugins that could clone an entire Wordpress site and install it in another location?
I build sites on one url, then to show the client and move it to another url to show it.
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References to other site everywhere in Wordpress site
I am relatively new to Wordpress, have been handed a site developed by someone else on one server, and have to deploy it to another. This site has bbpress installed, plus a load of other stuff. ...
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Moving WordPress.com theme and widget settings to self-hosted site?
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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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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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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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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Migrating from other CMS to WP - losing SEO juice?
I'm thinking about migrating a client's website from a super-old cms (xoops) to WP. However the site is quite old so I don't want him to lose any SEO juice he acquired through the years (PR: 2). ...
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Best way to import users, post and categories from an external database
I need to migrate an existing website to WordPress. This website already has a basic database containing users and posts (with a category), but it also has a high number of records so it's not ...
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How can I move/redirect single blog posts from one blog to another?
I see lots of answers about moving entire blogs, but here's my scenario:
I have a few blogs with a lot of content. I'm no longer publishing new content on these sites. I'm now publishing on another ...
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How do i migrate a Multi site to individual site?
I have a client who built a site on a sub site of a Multi site network
Can this be migrated to a new domain and independant wordpress site?
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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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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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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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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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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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How to migrate from wordpress.com to self-hosted wordpress
I'm trying to migrate from wordpress.com to self-hosted wordpress. These are some of the things I've done, but I'm not quite able to migrate successfully.
Changed my Godaddy account DNS to wordpress
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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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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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Migrating WP site to another URL
We are planning to change the domain name of our website.We are not changing the host but creating a new domain and will close/redirect all traffic to new domain (there will be not update on the old ...
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Export all content from wordpress
Evening all.
I've decided instead of upgrading the install of wordpress that I have, to just take the content (my writeups, comments, pages) and move them to the new site install. Is there an easy ...
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How to migrat a Wordpress installtion from one site to another, including images and featured images?
I need to move a Wordpress site hosted on Dreamhost to the my companies servers. To do so I used the built in import and export feature that comes with Wordpress (using a wordpress export file), ...
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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 much effort to migrate from .com to .org
I am launching an education and awareness site on Federal budget. Obviously less effort to use .com and can get going faster -- but would like characterization of effort required to migrate later to ...
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After finishing building a site on localhost, how do I transfer everything to a client's server?
I have installed XAMPP to build a site on localhost. After I finish, how do I transfer everything efficiently to, say, a client's server?
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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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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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Make WordPress “readonly” on a given site
I'm moving a WordPress installation from one server to another. The IP
address will change, but the URL will not, since I will redirect DNS.
The problem: while DNS changes propogate, people might ...
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All pages after level 1 showing 404 after WordPress migration plugin - how to fix?
I am in the process of moving my blog away from GoDaddy (yey!) to HostGator. I used the migration plugin on GoDaddy tat created the gz archive of the database, and I copied all my files over to the ...
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WordPress Network (MU): Copy Main Site to Sub-Site
I would like to copy all the posts, users, and pages from my main site into a sub site. I've tried exporting and importing, but the main site has thousands of entries and hundreds of users, and the ...
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Migrating problem - featured images
I'm trying to migrate a WP install using default export and import tool. Everything is peachy except featured images.
For my post thumbnails I'm using default Featured Image option with 7-8 ...
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How can I migrate to worpress using my last blog's rss
I have all of the my blog's posts in a rss file and I want to copy them in my blog.How can I do this?!?
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How to convert multi-site to single site
I need to take a site that is installed as a subdomain blog on a multi site install and move it to it's own domain on a standalone wordpress installation.
How can this be done?
I am running into ...
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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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Migrating old posts to new wp, how to extrapolate infos from the post body to custom fields?
I need to migrate some information that are store in the post body (like "price:200$"), extrapolate them somehow and put them into custom fields. how do I do that?
The blog is about restaurants and ...
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Migrating from PDO using SQLite to clean new install using MySQL
I've been using PDO plugin for wordpress and SQLite database. It does not work as expected so I want to use MySQL database, but without PDO for Wordpress since I cannot trust that plugin anymore, It ...
