So i'm looking to replace an old site with a newly built site. Both sites are built in WP. The urls are set up like this: "oldsite.org" and "oldsite.org/new"
I need to replace the old site with the new site so that /new is not required to get to the right place. What's the most efficient way of going about this? My client says has has a couple of back-end developers attempt this already and both failed due to faulty plug-ins. Import/Export attempts have previously broken the site.
You can go for a simple solution. Please find that step wise :
Take a backup of current site.
Install WP CLONE ACADEMY plugin into your new site.
Clone the new site
Install the same plugin into old site.
Import the clone file into old site.
Everything will imported from new site to old, even the database, plugins and etc.
Hope this will help you.
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I have a site on wordpress.com that is expiring at the end of October and I would like to host this myself but not sure what I need to do, to move this onto a new wordpress site I have downloaded on my localhost.
I have gone into the backend and downloaded the Export Content file (xml file) along with the media library but I am guessing I now need to somehow import this into the new Wordpress site I have on my localhost.
I understand that I will lose the template and the look but I am not too fussed about that and will be building a new template myself but just need to get around this before I can get started.
Would really appreciate any advice to get me going.
Please bear in mind that I have no access to the database or the web files and this is the reason I was trying to understand the steps I need to take to replicate the site on a new version of wordpress but with content/theme of the existing site.
Thanks in advance.
For migration you can use this plugin All in One Migration
You will not loose anything, this plugin will handle your front-end and back-end too.
I have a live newspaper WordPress website with about 10 users updating it daily with about 2000+ unique visitors a day. I have a sum of about 30 posts a day added to my db and i host my own pictures.
My goal is to change my theme that has been used for over 4 years so smoothly that I don't experience much hiccup for my viewers.
I want a dev environment somewhere in my server that I can test my new theme with my current posts.
A solution I have in my head is to create a subdomain for example "dev.example.com" and deploy the new theme there and have two working wordpress themes with one database.
Is this even possible? I need to have my new theme that is in a dev environment have access to my live database.
What is the best practice for this situation?
for people looking into this like me, I will post my findings below and if you like you can comment to guide me or tell me what I'm doing wrong or right.
there is a wp-staging plugin that can be used but it seems to be paid if you want to push changes from staging version to production version of your website.
I have also figured out that another wp website can be installed on a subdomain that you can create through cpanel and install a brand new wordpress environment that is completely separate from your live site with its own db and config.
Since most of us don't have unlimited server resources its going to be pretty heavy to clone everything from live site to staging site and I figured they cant share a db because changes made to staging site can effect live site if they share a database.
So I looked over a very well summarized easy youtube video which basically explained the whole process for cloning your wordpress on your subdomain and using a new db, but this solution can be good if you have the server space and resources, for a website like mine i would guess that a local installation of wordpress would work.
One of the comments on that video was very usefull as well:
Just create a subdomain, install WordPress with Softaculous on the subdomain, install the All In One WP Migration Plugin on both the main site and the subdomain, export the file in All In One WP Migration on the main site and import it to the subdomain and vice versa, you have your staging.
I am helping a friend build a simple Wordpress website, their current website is with a hosting and domain service called https://www.icuk.net/.
The website is very poorly built on this platform. I told them I'd make a website for free on WordPress as I have some experience with drag and drop WordPress website builders.
My question is, if I use the platform's one-click WordPress installation, does it automatically delete the website that was previously using the domain and hosting? If so, could anyone explain in layman's terms how I would go about backing it up, as it's always better to be safe than sorry.
I would be hesitant to do this, personally. I believe you can use the one click service to uninstall, at which point you can install WP again. A better option, however, if WP is already installed, would be to just change the theme, deactivate and delete any unwanted plugins, and then delete (or change to draft if you may want any of the content for your new development) any unwanted posts or pages. A current version of WP is a current version of WP, thus there is no reason to reinstall. Once you change the theme, remove the posts and pages, and remove the plugins, you are essentially back to a new install. Maybe do that instead?
I created a wordpress site with their template. In order to host my wordpress site on another hosting platform, I need the source code for my wordpress.com site. (that contains all the .php files). Is there an easy way to do that? This is my first time using wordpress so I'm very confused.
Thanks!
So the answer above is correct but that probably doesn't help you. What you can do is follow this link:
http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/transfer-wordpress/
It basically shows you how to migrate the data. You will need to setup wordpress.org on your new location first then once both are up, you can export from wordpress.com to your new location using I think a migration wordpress plugin. This should bring over your database. You will need to figure out how to migrate the template and style (look and feel) of the site. You may want to just find a new template that you like because I don't know how compatible wordpress.com templates are.
Hope this helps.
WordPress.com uses a modified version of the code available at https://wordpress.org/. You can't download their modified version, but you can download WordPress.org and start from there.
if you want to download a theme, you can find said theme on wordpress.org. If the theme is listed as premium, you'll have to buy it.
if you want to change yourDomain.wordpress.com to yourdomain.com please read this page.
I have recently created a new Wordpress site, on azurewebsites.net. After the initial instal, I updated the PHP version to 5.4 and then resarted the site.
I was having trouble creating new folders, and in paticular, a plugin wasn't working as I would have expected.
The plugin was the WPTouch plugin. I installed the plug, but each time I tried to upload a new image to the
/wp-content/uploads/wptouch/custom-icons
(via the plugin, this was the final destination) I was getting the error message:
There seems to have been an error.
Please try your upload again.
Within Web Matrix 2, I do not have the ability to create a new folder (I thought that I would create the folders myself, and see if that resolved the problem).
So my question is - is there an issue with the folder permissions, and if so, how can I get round this to make the Wordpress plugin work.
Thanks for your time.
I have had similar issues (upgrading WP plugins on Azure Website) and have found the only way to upgrade these is to restart the services, manually delete the remnants in the plugins folder, and re-install.
It's far from ideal but I'm persisting with it for now..
Some more in depth explanations here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/windowsazurewebsitespreview/thread/8c4d17e9-520c-4d89-bc7d-efe923dd1a55