I have created a wordpress website on the localhost and want to migrate it to the clients server. How can i shift the content, images (media) and the theme and its widgets.
Hope i dont have to recreate all that on the website all over again :D
BackupBuddy is probably the most efficient and easiest way. Here's the URL: BackupBuddy
Plenty of documentation and the plugin basically does everything for you.
Review the Wordpress Codex on this issue for details and various Tools that can help you.
Make sure that your theme and widgets are not referencing the old domain directly. If this is a theme/plugin/widget of your own making, you should be aware that Wordpress has Various Functions that reference the URL of your Wordpress installation.
You need to do a few things:
Install WP Migrate DB http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-migrate-db/ and use it to export the DB as a gzip file
Upload all the Wordpress files to the server modifying wp-config.php to match the client's MySql server. If WP is already installed, upload only what's in wp-content
Access the client's MySql server (normally through phpMyAdmin) and import the gzip file that contains your DB
To get the server path on the client's server (WP Migrate DB will ask for it) use this php snippet from the site's / :
<?php print_r(__DIR__) ?>
That should be it.
Cheers.
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Hi all I am facing a problem wit avada theme while the theme is perfect at localhost but when I upload it on live server it get's the localhost links so when I change localhost links on live server theme's maximum part gets reset is there any proper way of uploading the avada theme.
Changing URLs in a text database .sql dump will break the serialized data that stores widget settings, theme options and more. Use interconnectit.com WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool to correctly find/replace URLs in the database.
If that tool does not work, and your theme still breaks after use, it means the theme does not correctly serialize data in the database.
Install a new plugin All-in-One WP Migration – WordPress plugin on both local host Wordpress as well as on hosting Wordpress Admin
Export the Site From Local Host Wordpress
import the site to Hosting Server wordpress
all the url replace automatically no need to change url one by one.
This can be done by change/replace all the localhost url to your live server on .sql file fist in any editor and then upload it to new server. it may work for you.
In my localhost(xampp) wordpress themes are installed. I activate one of them And create user name and password for the wp-admin.
And I backup database and wordpress site and upload it to subdomain(live site). After upload all content will load without CSS style-sheet. And wp-admin also not working. And url as same baseurl twice.
Question is How to upload my wordpress site to my subdomian. Clear me out. Am i missing some thing??
This is pretty much what you are looking for: Moving WordPress
It´s a quite detailed manual how to move WordPress Sites/Blogs from one server to another and moving from localhost to a live server is not much different.
If you are trying to move a complete Wordpress site from one server to another I would recommend using the plugin Duplictor.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
Really easy to use and does the job excellent!
I do blogging a bit. I found this video tutorial, I have used this one to successfully set up a new subdomain and install Wordpress sometimes ago.
STEPS::
Use cpanel to create the subdomain
Download the latest version of wordpress to your local drive
Upload to subdomain folder on your host
Extract the files, and move them into the subdomain folder
Use cpanel DB Wizard to create a new data base
Make a note of the username, db name and db password
Copy wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php in the subdomain folder
Edit wp-config.php to add the username, db name and db password
Open the URL "your-subdomain.your-domain.com/wp-admin/install.php"
Fill out the fields on the form and press "install wordpress"
After creating the a subdomain, use WP clone to create and install a backup of my live site into the new subdomain. The clone site allows you to verify updates before deploying them to your public site.
Hopefully the issue has resolved already, but maybe this will be of use to others.
Thanks.
If you are trying to move a complete Wordpress site and is without plugin,
copy all the wordpress files in the htdocs/project-name to the
subdomain folder.
Then export the db from phpmyadmin,open it in an editor
Change all the url of the format 'http://localhost/your-project-name'
to the subdomain link(http://eg.example.com).
Save it and import the sql file to the subdomain's db
Change the database,username,password in wp-config of the subdomain
with subdomain's db details.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#In_a_Subdirectory
Wordpress codex gives you the steps for doing this.
Hi I am currently developing an Wordpress site offline on local server and want to upload to my domain online. I don't need to transfer the database, but I would like my pages, theme, widgets to work correctly.
What I am doing:
Copying Wordpress directory to domain directory through ftp.
Exporting everything in local server Wordpress and importing in
online Wordpress.
All my pages/posts are transferred, and my theme is installed but not set default. When I select it, everything is set to the themes original defaults, not like changed on the local server (for example tagline, background, etc). Also the widgets are the default settings.
Am I doing something wrong?
I am using Wordpress 3.4.2
Thanks!
Yes, you have just forgotten that some options for your themes are actually stored as WordPress options, so if you don't upload your database, you will not transfer these settings.
I've written a tutorial explaining step-by-step how to transfer a WordPress site to another server: http://www.sebastianbroways.com/wordpress-transfer/
If you follow each step the site should retain all the settings, including the template preferences. Good luck.
What is easiest way to change wordpress site. I have develop a site in wordpress for client and who do not have enough knowledge of doing changes in files.
Is there any way that she just upload the files and run some script for changing the path in files and site can be functional.
You can add site relocation parameters to wp-config.php, re Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex, but for other important details of changing domains or moving from localhost to a live domain and changing URLs in the database, use Database Search and Replace Script in PHP | interconnect/it.
There are several ways to deploy a WordPress site, what I always do is this:
dump the database to a .sql file.
Do a search and replace on the database for the development URL (devsite.local) and replace it with the new URL (thewebsite.com) (no trailing slashes!!)
Upload the site including the uploads folder
Replace the database with your .sql file
This is the only way I know to do a complete migration from a local server to the real server.
You can also do an export of the content though XML, but that doesn't work with images and some settings.
I design wordpress sites locally then when the time comes to deploy it to a hosted server I transer all the database and I edit the config table for the new url, but I dont think this is a good practice.
What are you thoughts on the best way to do this?
My question is : How do I publish a wordpress site from my computer to a live server constantly?
I take it you are referring to the site url settings. You can override these from the config file instead of manually editing the db values. This is a supported and probably safest way to do it.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_address_.28URL.29
Once you have the site up and running you can save the settings from the WP interface and remove the lines from the config file.
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com/wordpress');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://example.com/wordpress');