Old plugin to new plugin, too many files, a lot of shortcodes

  • Resolved instacado

    (@instacado)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    I’m in the process of rebuilding a large site of ours that has almost 800 PDFs uploaded through the old version of the Download Monitor plugin. I installed the new version on our new WordPress installation, as well as the legacy importer, before transferring the DLM database into the new WordPress database. However, I’ve come into two major issues:
    1: The database is too big, and will only import around 100-150 uploads at a time, and running the legacy importer again only reimports the first files, so I get an issue with duplication as well
    2: Even if I get past this issue, there are almost 800 posts with the shortcodes in them that I’d need to update, which isn’t going to be a fun task.

    If you know of any workarounds to these issues, I’d love to hear them. If not though, my plan is to reupload the old version of the plugin, and have it running simultaneously with the new one, gradually updating the old shortcodes to the new ones. I noticed that the plugin folder for the new one is named the same as the old one. Is it possible to run them in unison?

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  • Plugin Contributor Barry Kooij

    (@barrykooij)

    Hey,

    Glad to hear you’re moving away from the old and outdated version and sorry to hear the transition isn’t going as smooth as we’d both prefer.

    1: This sounds like a server restriction. A lot of servers cap the max amount of time or MB a single process can take and will cut out afterwards. You could contact your host about increasing this (temporary) or copy your website to a local server and do the upgrade there.
    2: I understand and this is the only reason why this is still a manual process. We’re still investigating if we can automate this process in a reliable way, when we’ll figure this out we can push out one ultimate new version that will move everyone back to the same version. The challenge here is that it’s all in shortcodes, which makes this very difficult. Short answer for now: no, this can’t be automated at the moment. You’ll have to do this manually which will be a very annoying job for 800 downloads.

    Kind Regards,

    Barry Kooij

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