Migration issues/questions

  • Resolved DexDeadly

    (@dexdeadly)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    I used this plugin to move a site from an old domain to another. I thought that it would update the old url to the new url. However, if I look at the _posts table. However, the guid table did not get replaced. I can do that via a sql query but I just wanted to make sure is this expected and what other potential issues I could have.

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  • Plugin Support nicholas2019

    (@nicholas2019)

    Hi @dexdeadly,

    Thanks for your feedback.

    There is a statement of GUID in www.ads-software.com document (https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/changing-the-site-url/):

    The term “GUID” stands for “Globally Unique Identifier”. It is a field that is intended to hold an identifier for the post which a) is unique across the whole of space and time and b) never, ever changes. The GUID field is primarily used to create the WordPress feeds.

    The second part of that is that the GUID must never change. Even if you shift domains around, the post is still the same post, even in a new location. Feed readers being shifted to your new feeds when you change URLs should still know that they’ve read some of your posts before, and thus the GUID must remain unchanged.

    Never, ever, change the contents of the GUID column, under any circumstances.

    So, our plugin keeps GUID unchanged in migration process.

    Regards.

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