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[William Davis]

Jeremy,

This is pretty much my new favorite thing ever, but do you know how  
it's affected by multisite?

Will


On Nov 26, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Jeremy Clarke wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Peter van der Meij <peter at pjvdm.nl>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>> My problem with this solution is that is you always have to find/ 
>> replace
>> all
>> the url instances in the db.
>> Because of the slightly stupid way WordPress stores it url's
>>
>
> Appologies if you are already aware of this but when using staging/dev
> environments it is vital that you take advantage of the wp-config.php
> constants that control the core site urls:
>
> define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://localhost:8888/wp-svn');
> define('WP_HOME', 'http://localhost:8888/wp-svn');
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_address_.28URL.29
>
> These won't change the urls of media links inserted in posts, but it  
> saves
> you having to find/replace the main urls in wp_options, and in my  
> experience
> dev copies work totally fine once you start using them. As long as  
> you are
> online the media files still load fine from the live site, and all  
> wp-admin
> and post links lead to the right place on your dev install.
>
> -- 
> Jeremy Clarke
> Code and Design | globalvoicesonline.org
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