Comments on: Moving a WordPress Install

By: scriptygoddess » Blog Archive » The Blogger to WordPress move from hell!

Sat, 22 May 2010 03:08:24 +0000

[...] way better than trying to chew through a 30MB import file. Once the database is up on your server, a few more SQL commands (just like if you're moving your blog to a new domain) to change the local version (probably http://localhost:8888 ) to your actual domain name, and [...]

By: hixster

hixster — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:11:54 +0000

Thanks for this! I searched high and low on WP and never found any mention of this at all.

After running the above SQL my migration works a treat!

Thanks again

By: taiyo

taiyo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:09:45 +0000

@velvet
Awesome! thanks for sharing that.

For moving from one directory on a website to another one can just put a .htaccess redirect and that solves the old-links-in-posts problem. But for moving to a different url altogether your plugin is a lifesaver.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:44:58 +0000

We just released a plugin which makes dealing with SQL unnecessary. And it does update both the permalinks and the links in post and page content.

Check it out at: http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/

By: taiyo

taiyo — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:08:45 +0000

I was a little worried the first time I had to migrate a wordpress site too. But like you said it's actually very easy.

I do it for my clients now all the time.