[wp-hackers] [GSoC 2011] Moving Wordpress

[Rafael Ehlers]

Look at this one:

http://spectacu.la/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Piyush Mishra <me at piyushmishra.com> wrote:

> Check the plugin by Azizur
> https://github.com/azizur/wordpress-oneclick-migration and also
>
> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/119/easily-move-a-wordpress-install-from-development-to-production/182#182
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Ken Newquist <newquisk at lafayette.edu
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:50:42 +0530 Piyush Mishra <me at piyushmishra.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Moving a WP from one install to another server for a new domain means
> > > changing the guid in [wp_]posts, updating site_url n home.
> > > Taking mysql dump, zipping wp-contents and importing all of that on the
> > new
> > > server right?
> >
> > The problem I've had with moving a site from development to production
> (and
> > back again) has always been with the serialized data for plugins and
> > widgets. When the data's serialized, it includes a string count. This
> isn't
> > a problem if the domain name is going to stay the same, but if the number
> of
> > characters in the name does change (e.g. foo-dev.bar.com to foo.bar.com)
> > then the serialized data counts are off. That causes PHP errors when it
> > tries to unserialize the data; that in turn can cause plugins to load
> > without any of their setting information.
> >
> > This can be a big headache when moving large sites through the
> > dev/stage/prod migration path. I've handled it in the past with a script
> > that loads the serialized data from a test database, then re-serializes
> it
> > with the new URL.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > --
> > Ken Newquist
> > Web Applications Specialist
> > Lafayette College
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> > e: newquisk at lafayette.edu
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> >
> >
> >
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