Questions tagged [migration]
There are times when you need to move WordPress around within your server, and times when you need to move WordPress from one server to another. You don't need to reinstall. WordPress is flexible enough to handle all of these situations.
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Redirect of specific words in URL ahead of website migration
I'm migrating my website from Squarespace to WordPress and wondering if I can get ahead of the one thousand+ 404s I'll hit by setting up something to redirect specific keywords to remove them.
The old ...
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Reverseproxied Wordpress Docker stack keeps redirecting to old domain name
I am running a Docker stack with Wordpress and MariaDB on a Linux machine and routing everything with Nginx-Proxy-Manager.
First attempt
I tried to migrate a website I have running on a different ...
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wordpress generated inline css missing after migration
migrated working wordpress setup form the local development setup to the production environment
changed the siteurl/home in the wp_options database table
everything seems ok at first glace
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Images Not Displaying On Page or Media Gallery After Multisite Migration
I recently migrated a WP Multisite (600+ subsites). All of the images are in the correct folders, but just get broken images, file not found, etc.
I have tried:
Regenerating Thumbnails via plugin ...
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Dev instance replaced my prod instance automatically - what would cause this?
First, I can confirm that no one in my team deployed our dev instance to prod. On the 27th of June some changes were made on the dev homepage, which were specifically not meant to be deployed. A month ...
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White screen on home page after migration; no errors
I’m trying to migrate a site from WP Engine to an Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) LENP server and I’m getting a white screen at the root (/) and/or at /index.php. I am able to load a screen at /wp-login.php, but ...
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How to change database entries due to theme change
I am not Wordpress developer but I have a problem and I do not how to deal with it.
My problem is that I am changing theme due to current theme is outdated.Those themes totally different each other ...
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How to trigger plugin migration code when plugin updates?
I'm looking to run some migration related code when my plugin is updated to the next release. I've researched and yet to find any sort of hook/trigger which will be called when a plugin has ...
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Does WordPress import export tool keeps the file hosted on the old website?
I have an old website with several GBs of media data. i want to export the media files with wordpress export / import tool to my new website. Wordpress gives me a 10mb .xml file out of the several GBs ...
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open_basedir restriction in effect after migration from LAMP to WIMP
I have moved a couple of sites from cPanel hosting to a Windows server with IIS. The sites seem to run fine until a file is needed to be written or a plugin downloaded and updated then it fails.
From ...
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How to add Featured Image on WXR from External Conversion
I want to migrate data from old site into a new WordPress installation, as I convert everything as expected, I still could not set the featured image.
I've tryin to read How to add featured thumbnail ...
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After migration index page still redirects to old url
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I copied my entire site from myexample.com to myexample.org first by using Duplicator plugin but it didnt go well since it gave me encoding errors so I did it manually but now whenever I try to ...
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After migration works only first page
I migrated from a web hosting to a server in my NAT.
I did vhost with apache2 so the http server can be serve both an instance of nextcloud and a wordpress one for my home.
I had a Let's encrypt ...
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Pages do not load after migration to new server
I migrated my site to another server with a migration plugin, and everything seems ok.
But it is the Hello World sample post which is loading, not my frontpage or any of my other pages, instead the ...
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Wordpress Site transfered to another Server. 404 all pages
I transfered a Wordpress page to new Server, and now all pages are 404.
I tried this solution https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-wordpress-posts-returning-404-error/
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How to migrate new web design to an existing website?
Can someone help me, I have duplicator pro but i don't think it's quite what i need to perform the tasks I am looking to do ?
I have a live website, fully functioning, however, it was a bit outdated ...
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wp-admin keeps forwarding me to an old url
So here's the general situation:
I have been developing an update for an existing website, let's call it domain name "example.com".
The url I have been using for development is "...
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Site admin can login but cannot access wp-admin after domain migration?
Moved a site to a new url. The site admin can login but when trying to acess wp-admin gets a perms error. -- Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page. ---
This has to do with the ...
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Can`t Access Post Page After Migration
my Issue is, I move my website from local host to server(live) using wp-all in one Migration Plugin, after I successfully imported the site everything works fine, but when I visit the main Post page ...
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Changing a domain for a current WP site without having it go inactive
in doing a project for a client, I was tasked to create a new Shopify store for their current WordPress store (powered by Foxycart).
I've completed the Shopify store now, but the thing is, my client ...
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Can I restore restore content from old Worpress site to a new Worpress site from an archive
I managed a now defunct Wordpress site (www.wp_old)several years ago that I still have complete archive of. It was created using Updraft Plus.
I recently configured a development server, and have ...
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FTP not working on a specific Wordpress site but working on others (and Filezilla) [closed]
I have FTP (SFTP) working on Filezilla and also on an "old" Wordpress site (I mean I set up the FTP for that site months ago), but it's not working on a new site.
I'm trying to duplicate ...
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Is there a way to migrate via wordpress dashboard?
I have a website on aws lightsail that I can no longer ssh into. I can login via wordpress but for some reason ssh is no longer working.
Is there a way to export my wordpress instance via the ...
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The requested URL was not found only on localhost
I have moved WordPress files & database from localhost to live server successfully. However, now when I try to move it back to localhost the links doesn't work, although they should.
I am using ...
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Migration to WP - Couldn't load image
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I'm trying to migrate static page made with HTML/CSS/JS into Wordpress. The images won't load. They work in HTML, but when I migrate into PHP there are only alt-descriptions visible. Upon ...
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Duplicator Pro plugin with Docker on local?
I have the Duplicator Pro plugin. In the past it was fairly easy to use. I have a wordpress site on a server, I'm trying to bring it down/migrate it down into a local sandbox. I have my local ...
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Is there a way to migrate my wordpress blog to another website that uses a different domain?
I'm currently running a blog page for our company that utilizes Wordpress.
The blog was created after we finished working on our official company website, which utilizes a different domain.
Here's the ...
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How do you do your big exports / imports?
I have a big client (50k orders, 70k customers), I'm working today on the migration of his site on a new version of WordPress on a new server.
I need to export and import the products / customers / ...
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WordPress plugins - "Update" in backend vs replacing all files with never version
TL;DR: Regarding plugins: Are there any noteworthy difference between clicking 'Update' in the WordPress backend, compared to replacing all the files with the files for a newer version?
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I changed my domain name and REST API stopped working
I am building a word-press website, and I have changed my domain name from websiteold.com to websitenew.com.
The domain transfer was done by the web server host.
However, I am not able to use the rest ...
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How do I move a Wordpress site on the same server?
I have a test site on mysite.com/test and I want to move it over (and replace the current Wordpress installation) at mysite.com. What would be the most efficient way to do this?
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Change a web programmed in ASP.net to WordPress from scratch in the same Hosting
I have a website developed in ASP.net. I want to change all that website to WordPress, that is, make a website from scratch in the same hosting and then delete the website developed in ASP.net. I need ...
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Import from Windows to Linux
The previous IIS server used to host this WP site. Now I have a Linux environment. The Db import went smoothly. Copying over the site files generates issues however. There are plugins that refuse to ...
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WordPress white screen of death
I recently migrated the site from a subdomain back to the main domain using WP All-in-One Migration Tool. The migration was successful and I can see the wp-admin panel just fine and even view the site ...
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How to transform a custom made static HTML website to a WordPress website [closed]
I have an assignment from a customer to transform a custom made static HTML website to a WordPress website.
First I thought "That's easy, just make a theme & import it all there & link it ...
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White screen after migrating site, but wp-admin works fine. Disabling all plugins, applying default theme and enabling debug mode does nothing
I migrated my wordpress site from a very old host with these steps:
Downloaded the site to local desktop
Downloaded database (php 5.5)
Created new database in myphp (php 7.4) and edited exported ...
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Images in the post still pointing to older domain after domain change
I configured a new Domain for WordPress on Google Cloud Platform. It took around 24hrs for DNS propagation. Upon checking posts on the site I found that all the images are still pointing to the older ...
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After database migration, theme mods don't show [closed]
My Wordpress installation has only one theme which is active. The wp_option entry for it shows there are 31 theme mod entries.
a:31:{s:18:"custom_css_post_id";i:5248;s:30:"...
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Trying to move an Expression Engine site to Wordpress, but not having luck with content
I have an Expression Engine site that I'm trying to export to a WordPress site using this guide https://kingdesignllc.com/blog/migrating-from-expression-engine-to-wordpress/. It's working ok, except I ...
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Changing Wordpress domain
Since most previous questions deal only with the fundamentals of Wordpress migration, I haven't managed to find much information on this. Working in customer support for a webhosting company I've done ...
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migration wordpress to local machine does not work with all broken URLs except frontpage
I installed XAMPP on my Win 10 PC and migrated my wordpress website onto my PC. After migration, only the frontpage works. The other URLs would get a "Not Found". The frontpage is only ...
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Split up files from one big folder to multiple folders in uploads after migration
Is it possible to split up images in one uploads folder after full migration, and still keep each image attached to the post that it was uploaded to? Ideally I would like to put all images in folders ...
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Porting site URLs to new host but with same domain name [closed]
I am migrating a WordPress site from one server to a different one for a client. I ported all the themes and wp-config.php files (wp-content folde, wp-config.php and the entire database) as I've seen ...
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Page not found after migration to localhost. I already updated the sql links and the permalinks. Wp-admin page works perfectly
So basically whats in the title. I migrated the company website to my localhost to implement some changes. First I cloned the repository, then I created the database, and uploaded the sql file. ...
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Syncing WP Database Changes Between Environments: How To Handle Merging w/o touching database
I have a staging site which is originally a clone of the live site.
On a staging site, I made some changes such as creating new pages, installing new plugins, adding new medias etc.
Meanwhile the live ...
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How do I update attachment urls after changing site domain
I recently moved my site from https://subdomain.example.com to https://example.com.
Now all my attachments still point to
https://subdomain.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/file.mp3
even though ...
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Migrating WordPress + WooCommerce from server to Local
I've been trying fora few day to migrate a WordPress/WooCommerce website from a server (OVH) to local. I've downloaded the latest version of my database from OVH and all the FTP through FileZilla.
I'm ...
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Access files at new location using old file paths
I have a bunch of posts that contain images with urls that follow this pattern:
https://example.com/example_directory/files/2019/04/file.png
I've imported the posts into a new install of wordpress on ...
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Wrong URL to CSS and JS after change domain
I made a clone of my wordpress website and I published it on other domain. I used wp-migrate-db plugin to change domain in database and it looks almost perfect, but.. I have a problem with CSS and JS ...
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My website is showing today's date instead of published date since db migration to a new wordpress
I exported my database and content to a new Wordpress. Everything works fine, except that every post is showing under today's date, instead of the published date like it should be (the actual ...
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