Database migrate – menu settings question

  • Guys,

    Before moving an existing site from one server to another I have a simple question. Will a database migrate lose all my Menu settings?

    I mean, If I go into PHPmyAdmin and export the database – import it into the new server, copy the files over to the new server. That would move my site of course but will it also respect all my settings?

    Especially the menu settings. I have this theme which holds about 7 or 8 menu locations and each menu is very complex – it has grown over the years with lots of menu items and if I lose this structure and have to rebuild it, it would take a very long time.

    So that’s why I’m asking. What can I expect?

    Thanks already!

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  • Hi,

    Really depends how the theme was built, if it saves all settings in db or not. Most themes or templates don’t use mysql well, so you loose all settings moving to another server (even if all went nice).

    After, i have no clue how, but in general theme makers are lazy to plug settings in db (also it’s faster to make a file). Also, a theme normally doesn’t have rights to write on database so, it’s not easy (from your webserver point of view, it’s a different user trying to write on it – if well setup it will refuse an unknown write in mysql).

    But I suggest you try a full backup aka with updraft plus plugin, it’s a good one.

    Hope it helps,

    How to migrate all category and post drupal to wordpress.

    @santy check if there is a plugin to do that on wordpress free plugin base, or paying, if not try on docker, they are many stuff there.

    globally, drupal and wp are not too far so i think even manually you could find scripts to automate the most.

    Thread Starter Shmoo

    (@macpresss)

    Hmm this makes me even more curious.. I think I’ll try an migrate to my local machine first see how that works.

    From Drupaly
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Importing_Content

    From WP on docker:
    https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress/

    Just an update, we can now pull docker from a local environment to a fold of servers,

    Hope it helps,

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