[wp-hackers] Website transfering

[Jason LeVan]

If you're directly transferring the whole site to a fresh install, what
about exporting the db, running a find/replace, and importing that to your
new database, takes care of all old references in posts, options, media.
On Aug 27, 2011 12:17 PM, "Jonny Cauvain" <furcifer at furcifer.me> wrote:
> That's exactly what I did Chip, but everytime there have been a few images
> that I've had to alter manually.
>
> On Aug 27, 2011 5:03 PM, "Chip Bennett" <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>>
>> You *shouldn't* have had to, if:
>>
>> 1) All images were *attached* to the posts, rather than linked, and
>> 2) You enable the checkbox to download/attach all attachments on import
>>
>> Chip
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jonny Cauvain <furcifer at furcifer.me
>>wrote:
>>
>> > Not quite, john, I've had to manually change picture links in posts
more
>> > than once.
>> > On Aug 26, 2011 11:01 PM, "John Blackbourn" <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > On 26 August 2011 22:27, Pasquale Puzio <pasquale.puzio at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >> Hi all,
>> > >>
>> > >> I would move a website from a folder (initially called "beta") into
>> > another
>> > >> folder.
>> > >>
>> > >> In theory this operation is very simple in post and page contents
> there
>> > are
>> > >> a lot of images with the old path and I would avoid manually editing
> all
>> > >> posts and pages replacing the old path with the new one.
>> > >>
>> > >> Someone of you has some suggestion for me?
>> > >
>> > > Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure
>> > > this is all handled by the WordPress export and import system, so it
>> > > might be easiest to use that. When you import a WordPress XML file
>> > > it'll replace all instances of the domain name you're exporting from
>> > > with the domain name you're exporting to.
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